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McKesson to Pay $37M to Resolve West Virginia Opioid Suit
May 6 2019 // Drug distributor McKesson Corp has agreed to pay $37 million to resolve a lawsuit by the state of West Virginia alleging it helped fuel a U.S. opioid epidemic by failing to stop suspicious orders of painkillers by...
U.S. Supreme Court Says Tennessee Utility Can be Sued for Commercial Activity
May 6 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the Tennessee Valley Authority can be sued over its commercial activity. But it left a lower court to decide whether the case of an Alabama man injured by a power line can proceed. The...
Business Moves
May 6 2019 // National ProAg, AmTrust Agriculture Producers Ag Insurance Group Inc. has agreed to acquire Leawood, Kan.-based managing general agent AmTrust Agriculture Insurance Services. The deal, which is subject to regulatory...
People
May 6 2019 // National Robert Bauer has joined insurance broker Marsh to lead its U.S. Sharing Economy & Mobility Practice. Bauer will focus on developing and delivering products and services to companies operating in the new...
Louisiana Senators Say Agreement Reached on Federal Flood Aid for Homeowners
May 3 2019 // The Trump administration has agreed to rewrite regulations to help thousands of Louisiana homeowners with damage from the 2016 floods access federal aid, the state’s U.S. senators said Thursday. Republican Sens. Bill...
Congressional Budget Office Warns of ‘Potentially Disruptive’ Move to ‘Medicare for All’
May 3 2019 // Congressional budget experts said this week that moving to a government-run health care system like “Medicare for All” could be complicated and potentially disruptive for Americans. The report from the...
Deadly African Swine Virus Sends Shock Waves Through Global Food Chain
May 3 2019 // What started with a few dozen dead pigs in northeastern China is sending shock waves through the global food chain. Last August, a farm with fewer than 400 hogs on the outskirts of Shenyang was found to harbor African...
Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Takes Minority Stake in Canopius
May 3 2019 // Canopius AG announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance (SFMI). Under the terms of the transaction, SFMI will become a significant minority investor in Canopius. The...
Jury Finds Insys Founder, Execs Guilty of Racketeering in Opioid Sales
May 3 2019 // Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor was convicted of a racketeering conspiracy that drove sales of a highly addictive opioid while contributing to a nationwide epidemic. Federal jurors in Boston found that Kapoor...
U.S. Eases Offshore Drilling Rules Adopted After Gulf Oil Spill
May 3 2019 // The Trump administration unveiled on Thursday its final plan to roll back offshore drilling safety measures put in place by the Obama administration after the fatal 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the worst in U.S....
House Passes Climate Now Act, But What’s The Next Step?
May 2 2019 // The U.S. must take an active role in mitigating climate change on the global stage. So says the U.S. House of Representatives, which voted today on H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act. The bill, which passed 231-190,...
Boeing Aims to Move Lion Air Crash Lawsuit from Chicago HQ to Indonesia
May 1 2019 // Faced with lawsuits over a plane crash half a world away, Boeing Co. is arguing it shouldn’t have to defend itself in a courtroom a short walk from its corporate headquarters. The world’s largest planemaker has...
Losses from Cryptocurrency Thefts, Fraud Surged to $1.2 Billion in Q1: Report
May 1 2019 // Losses from the theft of cryptocurrencies from exchanges and fraud-related activities surged in the first quarter of the year to $1.2 billion, or 70 percent of the level for all of 2018, cyber-security firm CipherTrace...
Weed Killer Chemical Glyphosate Is Not a Cancer Agent, Says EPA, Contradicting Juries
May 1 2019 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that glyphosate, a chemical in many popular weed killers, is not a carcinogen, contradicting recent decisions by U.S. juries that found that it caused cancer in...
Why the Missouri River Is Just Going to Keep On Flooding: Viewpoint
Apr 30 2019 // The Missouri River used to be out of control. “It cuts corners, runs around at nights, fills itself with snags and traveling sandbars, lunches on levees, and swallows islands and small villages for dessert,” is...
Hiscox Appoints Hill from Blackboard Insurance Co. as Head of Claims in the U.S.
Apr 30 2019 // Hiscox, the Bermuda-headquartered specialist insurer, announced the appointment of Melissa Hill as head of Claims in the United States. Hill, who has more than a decade of experience in claims operations, will oversee the...
Senators Push Regulator to Finalize Drone ID System
Apr 30 2019 // Two U.S. senators on Monday urged U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to finalize a long-delayed rule that would require the remote identification of unmanned aircraft systems, or drones. The U.S. Congress tasked the...
Boeing’s Legal Woes Over Crashes Mount with Negligence Suits by Families
Apr 30 2019 // Boeing Co. was sued Monday by two Canadians who lost 10 family members in the March crash of a 737 Max in Ethiopia, adding to the aircraft manufacturer’s legal woes stemming from two deadly crashes by the jet. Among...
Getting Americans to Stop Using Phones While Driving
Apr 29 2019 // The distracted driving report by Zendrive, a traffic-data startup, makes it clearer and clearer each year that millions of Americans can’t stop themselves from talking, texting and livestreaming—yes, even using...
How Much Do Facebook Users Really Care About Privacy?
Apr 29 2019 // Facebook Inc. is preparing for a record-setting fine from U.S. regulators over privacy issues, but Wall Street shrugged at the looming penalty after the company added users and trounced profit expectations for the first...
