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Nonmedical Opioid Use Declines But Prescription Disorders, Deaths Rise: JAMA
Oct 13 2015 // New research suggests that while new medical guidelines and increased public awareness of problems with the use of opioids to treat chronic pain may be helping to slow the number of new opioid users, the prevalence of...
$12.9M Paid on Insurance Claims for Baltimore Riot Damage
Sep 7 2015 // The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) says insurance companies have paid $12.9 million in claims stemming from civil unrest in Baltimore linked to the death in April of Freddie Gray. The agency said on Aug. 25 that...
Insurers Paid $12.9M in Claims Stemming From Baltimore Riot
Aug 26 2015 // The Maryland Insurance Administration says insurance companies have paid $12.9 million in claims stemming from civil unrest in Baltimore linked to the death in April of Freddie Gray. The agency said Tuesday that the...
Maryland Appeals FEMA Denial of Millions in Riot Disaster Aid
Jul 20 2015 // Maryland is appealing the federal government’s denial of disaster aid to help the state and Baltimore recover millions of dollars in riot-related costs. The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied Maryland’s...
Maryland to Appeal FEMA Denial of Millions in Riot Disaster Aid
Jul 8 2015 // The state of Maryland says it will appeal the federal government’s denial of disaster aid to help the state and Baltimore city recover millions of dollars in riot-related costs. A spokesman for Republican Gov. Larry...
Report Says Police Actions Escalated Ferguson Unrest
Jul 1 2015 // Police antagonized crowds gathered to protest in Ferguson, violated free-speech rights and made it difficult to hold officers accountable, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report summary obtained by the St. Louis...
Industry Examines Potential Claims Issues Following Riots
May 18 2015 // Some 140 vehicle fires, more than a dozen structural fires and nearly 200 arrests were reported in the wake of Baltimore riots that shook the city in late April. And more than 200 businesses were damaged during the riots,...
New Jersey’s Sandy Victims Protest Pace of Rebuilding Aid Programs
May 15 2015 // Wendy Joan sported strips of red tape on her jeans and jacket to symbolize the delays she has encountered with New Jersey state agencies and joined other Superstorm Sandy victims Thursday in Trenton, New Jersey, rallying...
Maryland Issues Data Call for Claims Relating to Baltimore Unrest
May 11 2015 // The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) issued a data call for property/casualty insurers, the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF), the Joint Insurance Association (JIA), and surplus lines brokers in the state to...
Industry Representatives Examine Potential Claims Issues Following Riots
May 6 2015 // Some 140 vehicle fires, more than a dozen structural fires and nearly 200 arrests were reported in wake of the Baltimore riots that shook the city last week. And more than 200 businesses were damaged during the riots,...
Baltimore Riot Damage Adds Burden to Small Businesses
May 1 2015 // Richard Sung Kang’s American dream came crashing down in a shower of broken glass. His West Baltimore liquor store and bar, the Oxford Tavern, was hit by looters during a riot over the police-involved death of...
After Riots, Authorities Regain Control of Texas Prison
Feb 23 2015 // Officers have regained control of a South Texas prison where inmates had set fires and caused significant damage after taking over part of the facility, according to the private contractor operating the prison. About 300...
Rewards Offered for Information in Missouri Protest Arsons
Dec 9 2014 // The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering rewards up to $10,000 for information leading to arrests in the intentional fires set after the grand jury announcement in the Ferguson, Mo.,...
Hong Kong’s Appeal to Financial Community Survives Protests: Poll
Nov 18 2014 // Hong Kong’s appeal to the financial community has withstood pro-democracy protests that threatened to become the city’s biggest political crisis in decades, according to a Bloomberg Global Poll. Eighty-seven...
Hong Kong Protests Prompt Financial Firms to Relocate Staff
Oct 1 2014 // Some banks and other financial firms have begun moving staff to back-up premises on the outskirts of Hong Kong to prevent growing unrest in the financial hub from disrupting trading and other critical functions, two...
Unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, Cost County $4.2M
Sep 24 2014 // The unrest in Ferguson, Mo., that followed the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown by a police officer has cost St. Louis County more than $4 million. The county’s chief operating officer, Garry Earls, told...
Missouri Insurance Director: Claims from Ferguson Riots Limited to Businesses
Sep 8 2014 // Property damage claims resulting from the rioting in Ferguson, Mo., in August are limited primarily to commercial property housing small businesses, according to the state’s chief insurance regulator. “There...
Protesters in Massachusetts Call for Hobby Lobby Boycott
Jul 14 2014 // Protesters from southern New England have rallied outside Hobby Lobby Inc. store in Seekonk, Massachusetts, to protest a U.S. Supreme Court decision that organizers say reduces access to reproductive health services and...
Protests Damaging Vietnam Industrial Zones Raise Investor Concerns
May 16 2014 // Dexter Hsu spent Tuesday night barricaded inside his workers’ dormitory in Vietnam’s Binh Duong province. Tables were stacked up against the doors, but he and his dorm-mates were terrified by the shouts and...
Labor Unrest Follows Turkey’s Deadliest Mine Disaster
May 15 2014 // Turkey’s labor unions went on strike today after at least 282 people died in the nation’s worst mine accident, which Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said was “part of the nature of the...
