March 5, 2024
Staff at Wyoming’s state youth detention facility locked juveniles in solitary confinement for weeks at a time, repeatedly buckled one in a restraint chair for up to 12 hours a day and poked fun at another while withholding the leg …
March 5, 2024
Influential U.S. doctors’ group the American Medical Association (AMA) on Monday asked the Biden Administration to make emergency funds available to physicians hurt by ongoing problems created by the hack of UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare unit. The AMA said the cyberattack …
March 5, 2024
A unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway was added on Monday to a lawsuit accusing the National Association of Realtors and several brokerages of conspiring to keep real estate commissions artificially high nationwide. The complaint filed in a Kansas City, …
March 5, 2024
Authorities say a collision between two firetrucks responding to a blaze in northeastern Pennsylvania injured six firefighters. Officials in Luzerne County say a rescue truck from Valley Regional Fire and Rescue collided with a ladder truck from Hazle Township just …
March 5, 2024
Volkswagen AG faces a pair of lawsuits in Germany over claims it was the battery in a Porsche electric vehicle that triggered the 2022 fire onboard a massive cargo ship that eventually sank with thousands of cars on board. One …
March 5, 2024
Houthi militants attacked and damaged a Swiss-owned container vessel on Monday in the Gulf of Aden, as the Iran-backed group continues to roil shipping in the region. The MSC Sky II, managed by MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co., was about 91 …
March 5, 2024
AXIS Capital Holdings announced it has received full approval from Lloyd’s to begin underwriting from April 1, 2024. AXIS first announced in December that it had secured in-principle approval from Lloyd’s to establish a new syndicate that will focus on …
March 5, 2024
Four former top Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, have sued Elon Musk for over $128 million in combined unpaid severance, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, is the …
March 5, 2024
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Moments before the deadly crash of a charter jet on a Florida highway, three warnings about oil pressure problems in its two engines sounded, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report Tuesday. …
March 5, 2024
The head of two property insurance companies set to enter the Florida market this year is warning state lawmakers that bills that would limit some policy cancellations and nonrenewals after storm damage could do more harm than good. “It absolutely …