May 7, 2024
Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit persuaded an appeals court in Washington state to throw out a $185 million jury award to three former teachers at a Seattle-area school who blamed exposure to the firm’s toxic chemicals for their brain injuries. A …
May 7, 2024
A steel drum weighing thousands of pounds somehow rolled out of a construction site in Pittsburgh and eventually struck and killed a woman who was walking on a nearby sidewalk, police said. The accident occurred around 10:40 a.m. last Friday …
May 7, 2024
A bridge damaged in a fiery crash that kept Interstate 95 in Connecticut closed Thursday and Friday has been demolished. A live camera operated by the Connecticut Department of Transportation on Saturday showed excavators and bucket loaders scooping up rubble …
May 7, 2024
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green has formed a Climate Advisory Team (CAT) made up of experts and stakeholders to deal with the challenges of climate disasters and to build a roadmap for the state’s strategy to mitigate the financial impact of …
May 7, 2024
JM Wilson Hires Kemp as Transportation Renewal Underwriter JM Wilson, headquartered in Portage, Michigan, hired Corey Kemp as transportation renewal underwriter. Kemp is responsible for underwriting renewal commercial transportation accounts, corresponding with carrier underwriters and maintaining relationships with independent agents …
May 7, 2024
Want further proof the cannabis industry is no longer the “red-headed stepchild” it is too often viewed as? Just ask TJ Frost? Frost is president of Symphony Grow, which recently launched a captive program that Frost seed as evidence that …
May 7, 2024
Massachusetts’s highest court on Monday weighed whether ballot proposals that would redefine the relationship between app-based companies like Uber Technologies and Lyft and their drivers should be allowed to go before voters in November. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justices expressed …
May 6, 2024
Leif Assurance, headquartered in St. Louis, hired Kristine Sills as a commercial lines account executive. Sills’ responsibilities include managing new business acquisitions, as well as handling the renewal process for existing clients. Sills has more than 12 years of insurance …
May 6, 2024
Attorneys for more than two dozen Iowa and Iowa State athletes who were ensnared in a state gambling sting filed a civil lawsuit seeking unspecified monetary damages from the state and its public safety and criminal investigation agencies for violating …
May 6, 2024
HOUSTON (AP) — High waters flooded neighborhoods around Houston on Saturday following heavy rains that have already resulted in crews rescuing more than 400 people from homes, rooftops and roads engulfed in murky water. Others prepared to evacuate their property. …