Patriot Growth Insurance Services, less than three years old, has added a Florida firm to its army of insurance agencies around the country. The company, which calls itself one of the fastest growing national insurance agencies, announced that it had …
General Motors Co.’s Cruise and Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo self-driving car subsidiaries on Thursday became the first companies to receive autonomous vehicle permits to offer rides to passengers in California. Cruise has obtained a permit from the California Department of Motor …
If doctors offer differing opinions on a work injury, a judge must appoint a third physician to help settle the matter, according to Florida’s workers’ compensation rules. And an administrative law judge must consider a contingent argument raised by an …
Congress on Thursday passed a last-minute, short-term funding measure, averting a government shutdown that would have curtailed federal operations including the National Flood Insurance Program. The Senate was the first chamber to approve (65-35 ) the proposal to fund the …
More than 150 homeowners in a development outside Rapid City, South Dakota, are suing Meade County over risks to their properties after a sinkhole exposed an abandoned gypsum mine. The federal complaint filed Sept. 27 by Hideaway Hills residents in …
About 70,000 students across southeast Louisiana remain out of school because of Hurricane Ida’s destruction to classroom buildings a month ago, state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley told lawmakers on Sept. 28. That’s nearly 1 in 10 of Louisiana’s K-12 …
Ford Motor Company has been charged in a federal lawsuit with violating the law when it made a conditional offer of hire to a pregnant applicant but failed to hire her even though she was qualified and passed a company …
A federal agency has charged in a lawsuit that an Arkansas site preparation company steered Black applicants into lower-paying positions and paid Black applicants less money at hire. In its lawsuit the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged Texar …
State lawmakers are poised to consider bipartisan bills aimed at helping potentially thousands of sex abuse victims sue for damages, including those molested by a University of Michigan sports physician. It is the second time since 2018 that the Legislature …
Arthur J. Gallagher& Co. has acquired Little Rock, Ark.-based Alpha Surety & Insurance Brokerage LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2002, Alpha Surety focuses primarily on selling direct and wholesale commercial surety bonds in key industry …
