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Three Georgia Court Decisions Have Some Workers’ Comp Defense Lawyers Worried
Sep 4 2023 // After three major Georgia appeals court decisions have gone against employers in the last five years, some insurance defense attorneys are concerned that the state’s workers’ compensation laws have become...
Four Inmates in Problem-Plagued Atlanta Jail Have Died in the Span of a Month
Sep 1 2023 // A 34-year-old man who was being held at a problem-plagued jail in Atlanta died after he was taken to a hospital. He was the fourth person to die in Fulton County custody in the span of a month. A jail officer doing dinner...
Five More New Orleans Residents Charged for Conspiring to Stage Automobile Accidents
Aug 31 2023 // Five more people have been charged with intentionally staging automobile accidents with tractor-trailers in New Orleans to defraud trucking and insurance companies in 2017. United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced...
3M Agrees to Pay More Than $5.5 Billion Over Military Earplugs
Aug 28 2023 // 3M Co. has tentatively agreed to pay more than $5.5 billion to resolve over 300,000 lawsuits claiming it sold the US military defective combat earplugs, people familiar with the deal said. The settlement would avert a...
Two British Teens and Their Audacious Hack of Nvidia, Grand Theft Auto and Uber
Aug 25 2023 // At 9 p.m. on Sept. 22 last year, a group of City of London police officers waited outside room M15 at the Travelodge Bicester, a one-star budget hotel in Oxfordshire, England, for the right moment to bust in. On the other...
Five Hurt, One Critically, When Wall Collapses at Construction Site
Aug 25 2023 // One person was critically injured and four others were hurt when a wooden wall at a home under construction in Massachusetts collapsed on them Wednesday morning, authorities said. The construction workers were trapped in...
Two Killed After Car is Struck by Train in South Dakota
Aug 22 2023 // ELKTON, S.D. (AP) – Two people died when a car was struck by train in South Dakota, an accident that caused the train to derail and crash into a grain elevator. The South Dakota Highway Patrol said the accident that...
One Dead, 185 Structures Destroyed in Eastern Washington Wildfire
Aug 21 2023 // A wind-driven wildfire in eastern Washington state had destroyed at least 185 structures, closed a major highway and left one person dead over the weekend. The blaze began shortly after midday Friday on the west side of...
Six Former Mississippi Law Officers Plead Guilty in Torturing of Two Men
Aug 16 2023 // BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — Six white former Mississippi law officers pleaded guilty on Monday to state charges for torturing two Black men in a racist assault. All six had recently admitted their guilt in a connected...
Two Dead After Plane Strikes Power Line in North Carolina
Aug 15 2023 // Two people died when a small plane struck a power line and crashed into a western North Carolina lake, a city official said. The crash occurred about 11:30 a.m. Sunday on Lake Hickory, said Sarah Killian, a spokesperson...
Four Dead, Another Missing After Blast Destroys 3 Structures in Pennsylvania
Aug 14 2023 // Four people were dead and a fifth was unaccounted for following a house explosion in western Pennsylvania that destroyed three structures and damaged at least a dozen others Saturday morning, authorities said. Allegheny...
Two Rival Robotaxi Services OK’d to Operate Throughout San Francisco
Aug 14 2023 // California regulators approved an expansion that will allow two rival robotaxi services to operate throughout San Francisco at all hours, despite safety worries spurred by recurring problems with unexpected stops and other...
Three Georgia Decisions Have Some Comp Attorneys Worried. Claimants Not So Much
Aug 14 2023 // After three major Georgia appeals court decisions have gone against employers in the last five years, some insurance defense attorneys are concerned that the state’s workers’ compensation laws have become...
Four New Offshore Wind Power Projects Planned for New Jersey Shore
Aug 9 2023 // Wind power developers proposed four new projects off the New Jersey Shore on Friday, a surge that would more than double the number of wind farms built off its coast if they are approved by regulators. At least two of them...
Six Strategies That Take Weeks Off Your Hiring Process
Aug 7 2023 // Do you think your hiring process takes too long? Have issues with timing cost you time, money and the chance to hire top talent? One of the first lessons I learned as a young recruiter was, “Time kills all...
Three Killed When Small Plane Hits Hangar at California Airport
Jul 31 2023 // A pilot and two passengers were killed Sunday when a single-engine plane crashed into a hangar and burst into flames at a Southern California airport, authorities said. The Beechcraft P35 with three people on board crashed...
Three Butler University Soccer Players File Federal Lawsuit Alleging Abuse by Ex-Trainer
Jul 28 2023 // INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Three Butler University women’s soccer players filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging the team’s former athletic trainer sexually assaulted and groomed multiple players on the...
One Year Old, US Climate Law is Turbocharging Clean Energy, Raising Issues for Insurers
Jul 25 2023 // On a recent day under the July sun, three men heaved solar panels onto the roof of a roomy, two-story house near the banks of the Kentucky River, a few miles upstream from the state capitol where lawmakers have promoted...
Two Dirt Bike Riders Die in Crash with SUV
Jul 18 2023 // Two people died over the weekend when the dirt bike they were riding collided with an SUV near a shopping plaza in Massachusetts, authorities said. The victims of the crash in Wareham just before 11 p.m. Saturday were...
Two New Jersey Firefighters Died Battling Fire on Cargo Ship Carrying 5,000 Cars
Jul 7 2023 // Two firefighters were killed battling a blaze that began when cars caught fire deep inside a cargo ship carrying 5,000 cars at a New Jersey port, Newark`s fire chief said Thursday. Responding firefighters found five to...
