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U.S. Hog Farmers on Alert Over African Swine Fever Disease
Oct 23 2018 // U.S. hog farmers are ramping up safety procedures and leaving animal-feed ingredients imported from China in storage in an attempt to keep out a highly contagious swine disease that is sweeping through Asia and...
Verisk Product Scores Properties on Flood Risk; Could Replace Outdated Flood Maps
Oct 23 2018 // Data analytics firm Verisk is touting the launch of WaterLine, an underwriting tool that scores flood risk for all properties in the contiguous United States, helping identify homes and businesses vulnerable to flood. The...
GenX Undetected in Bloodstreams of North Carolina Chemical Plant Neighbors
Oct 19 2018 // Dozens of neighbors of a North Carolina chemical plant had industrial compounds in their bloodstreams, but tests by state and federal health officials outlined Tuesday didn’t find the much-debated and little-studied...
Firms Sued Over Missouri Duck Boat Sinking Seek Mediation, Cite 1851 Law
Oct 18 2018 // Two companies facing multiple lawsuits over a summer tourist boat accident in Missouri that killed 17 people have invoked an 1851 law that allows vessel owners to try to avoid or limit legal damages as they also seek...
15 Emerging Risks from Policies to Playgrounds, Sandboxes to Scooters
Oct 18 2018 // When insurance experts are asked what they see as the most important emerging risk for the property/casualty insurance industry, their consensus is cyber in some form. While cyber obviously poses tremendous risks, some...
Barge-Mounted Crane Hits Louisiana Bridge; Closing it for Months
Oct 17 2018 // A barge-mounted crane has slammed into a Louisiana bridge, shuttering a travel artery for what Louisiana officials say will be at least a few months. Operators for Marquette Transportation hit the Sunshine Bridge at...
Supreme Court Declines Paint Manufacturers’ Appeal of $400M Public Nuisance Ruling
Oct 17 2018 // The U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals from Sherwin-Williams Co. and Conagra Brands Inc., leaving intact a ruling that requires them to pay more than $400 million for lead-paint remediation in California. The rebuff,...
Hackers with Russian Ties Hit 3 E. European Companies: Cyber Security Firm
Oct 17 2018 // Hackers have infected three energy and transport companies in Ukraine and Poland with sophisticated new malware and may be planning destructive cyber attacks, a software security firm said on Wednesday. A report by...
Texas Pilot Who Crashed Plane for Insurance Sentenced to Prison for Fraud Scheme
Oct 17 2018 // A 33-year-old pilot, formerly of Kemah, Texas, was sentenced in early October to more than five years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $1 million in an insurance fraud-related case. Theodore Robert Wright III...
Lead-Paint Makers Rejected by Top Court in $400M Case in California
Oct 16 2018 // The U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals from Sherwin-Williams Co. and Conagra Brands Inc., leaving intact a ruling that requires them to pay more than $400 million for lead-paint remediation in California. The rebuff,...
Chicago Restaurant Chain to Settle Sexual Harassment, Retaliation Suit for $160K
Oct 16 2018 // Chicago-based Rosebud Restaurants Inc. will pay $160,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC’s lawsuit charged...
Canada Gets Ready for Legalized Recreational Marijuana on Oct. 17
Oct 16 2018 // Mat Beren and his friends used to drive by the vast greenhouses of southern British Columbia and joke about how much weed they could grow there. Years later, it’s no joke. The tomato and pepper plants that once...
Drug Ads on TV Would Show Prices Under Trump Administration Proposal
Oct 16 2018 // The U.S. government, in an effort to increase pressure on drugmakers to lower costs for U.S. consumers, said on Monday it will propose requiring companies to include the price of their prescription medicines in television...
Judge Rules Government, Not President, Can Be Sued Over Climate Change
Oct 16 2018 // A group of young Americans suing the federal government over lack of action to fight climate change can proceed with their lawsuit, but U.S. President Donald Trump cannot be named as a defendant, a federal judge ruled on...
Marsh McLennan Acquisition of JLT Clears Key U.S. Antitrust Hurdle
Oct 15 2018 // The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Justice Department have concluded their competitive review of the proposed acquisition of London-based re/insurance broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT) by New York-headquartered...
U.S. Moves to Permit Euro-Style, Low-Glare Headlights
Oct 15 2018 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it is moving to allow advanced headlights known as “adaptive driving beams” to be used in vehicles on U.S. roads that could help prevent nighttime...
FBI, Global Regulators Investigating Facebook’s Largest-Ever Data Breach
Oct 15 2018 // Cyber attackers stole data from 29 million Facebook accounts using an automated program that moved from one friend to the next, Facebook Inc announced on Friday, as the social media company said its largest-ever data theft...
Aging Infrastructure Poses Risks for Communities Relying on Natural Gas
Oct 15 2018 // The kind of dramatic scenes that played out in suburban Massachusetts last month following a series of explosions and fires may serve as a warning of what lies ahead for the U.S., where an increasing reliance on natural...
Chicago Insurance Agent Pleads Guilty to Federal, State Tax Evasion
Oct 15 2018 // A Chicago insurance agent has pleaded guilty to failing to pay federal and state taxes on more than $4.7 million in income earned over a decade, according to federal prosecutors. The office of the United States Attorney...
Texas Supreme Court Says Family Can Sue City for Man’s Wrongful Death
Oct 15 2018 // The family of a Fort Worth man who died after they say officers needlessly choked, kicked and shot him with a stun gun during a 2013 drug raid can proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit against two officers and the city,...
