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Oil Industry Begins Cleaning Up, Restarting Gulf Operations After Hurricane Sally
Sep 17 2020 // Storm-tossed U.S. offshore energy producers and exporters began clearing debris on Thursday from Hurricane Sally and booting up idle Gulf of Mexico operations after hunkering down for five days. The storm toppled trees,...
Update: Weakened Hurricane Sally Leaves Gulf Coast With Flooding
Sep 17 2020 // Update: 11:37 am, GULF SHORES, Ala., Sept 17 (Reuters) – The remnants of Hurricane Sally on Thursday brought more than a foot of rain to Florida and Georgia, killing at least one person, washing out bridges and roads...
House Democrats Ask Why Auto Safety Rules Are Delayed
Sep 17 2020 // Three senior Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday asked government auditors to study why U.S. auto safety regulators have failed to write dozens of new auto safety regulations. The delayed rules...
U.S. Gulf Inundated by Massive Floods from Hurricane Sally
Sep 16 2020 // Hurricane Sally slammed the U.S. Gulf Coast with high winds and heavy rains on Wednesday, turning coastal towns into lakes in the latest in a busy season of dangerous storms in the United States. The storm landed as a...
Appeals Court Weighs Harvard University Use of Race as Factor in Admissions
Sep 16 2020 // A federal appeals court on Wednesday will consider whether Harvard University discriminates against Asian-American applicants in a closely-watched case that could impact whether U.S. colleges can use race as a factor in...
Boeing Crash Victims’ Families Want Congress to Lift Shield on Planemakers’ Liability
Sep 16 2020 // Families of Boeing 737 MAX crash victims are urging U.S. lawmakers to ensure the planemaker is held accountable for accidents that together killed 346 people by blocking a key legal defense, according to a letter sent on...
Historic Flooding from Hurricane Sally Could Hit Gulf Coast
Sep 15 2020 // Hurricane Sally drew closer to the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday morning, threatening historic floods, the National Hurricane Center said, with more than two feet (61 cm)of rain expected in some areas. The second strong storm...
Tracking Tool Spotlights Repetitive Flood Loss Homes Receiving U.S. Taxpayer Funds
Sep 15 2020 // Passaic County in New Jersey is not in the hurricane belt nor is it on the banks of a major river, and yet 810 properties there received $170 million of taxpayer money through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)...
U.S. Court Upholds State Tax on Drugmakers to Defray Opioid Crisis Costs
Sep 15 2020 // A federal appeals court on Monday cleared the way for New York state to collect about $200 million from drug manufacturers and distributors by imposing a surcharge on them to defray the costs of combating the opioid...
Coronavirus Pandemic Will Have Severe Impact on Social Inflation: Fitch’s Mazzuoli
Sep 15 2020 // Claims inflation for the commercial liability business will increase through 2020, although it was accelerating even before the coronavirus pandemic hit. This trend, known as social inflation, has led the insurance...
Daimler to Pay $2.2 Billion for Clean Air Violations Over Diesel Emissions
Sep 15 2020 // Daimler AG will pay $2.2 billion to resolve a U.S. government diesel emissions cheating investigation and claims from 250,000 U.S. vehicle owners, court documents show. The German automaker and its Mercedes-Benz USA LLC...
Update: Hurricane Sally Threatens U.S. Gulf Coast as ‘Rainmaker’
Sep 14 2020 // Louisiana and Mississippi residents were under evacuation orders on Monday as Hurricane Sally churned across the Gulf of Mexico, strengthening to a hurricane ahead of expected landfall on Tuesday, the U.S. National...
NHC: Tropical Storm Sally Strengthens to Hurricane
Sep 14 2020 // Update 4:00 pm EST: Louisiana and Mississippi residents were under evacuation orders on Monday as Hurricane Sally churned across the Gulf of Mexico, strengthening to a hurricane ahead of expected landfall on Tuesday, the...
NHC: Tropical Storm Sally Strengthens to Hurricane
Sep 14 2020 // Louisiana and Mississippi residents were under evacuation orders on Monday as former Tropical Storm Sally strengthened to a hurricane status and churned across the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center...
Why the Coronavirus Recession Is Not Like the Last Recession
Sep 14 2020 // Judith Ramirez received a letter this month that she’d been dreading: The Honolulu hotel that furloughed her from a housekeeping job in March, during the lockdown triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, made her...
Lloyd’s Names AIG/Blackboard’s Schoberth to New U.S. Market Development Position
Sep 14 2020 // Lloyd’s of London has appointed Uwe Schoberth as U.S. market development director, a new role focused on expanding its strategic relationships with retail, wholesale and reinsurance brokers in its largest market. In...
Tropical Storm Sally Strengthens; Louisiana Braces for Another Hurricane
Sep 13 2020 // 09/13/2020 06:09 PM— Tropical Storm Sally strengthened off the west coast of Florida on Sunday and was poised to become a category 2 hurricane, bringing the threat of dangerous storm surges and high winds to the U.S....
Facebook Going to Court in Ireland to Salvage Its EU to U.S. Data Transfer Practices
Sep 11 2020 // Facebook Inc. launched legal action on Friday against Ireland’s Data Protection Commission in an attempt to halt a proposed order that could stop the company from transferring data from the European Union to the...
Inside Big Pharma’s Stealth War on Drug Price Watchdog: Reuters Special Report
Sep 11 2020 // As evidence grew this spring that the drug remdesivir was helping COVID-19 patients, some Wall Street investors bet on analysts’ estimates that its maker, Gilead Sciences Inc., could charge up to $10,000 for the...
OSHA Cites Smithfield Foods For Lax Coronavirus Safety for Meat Plant Workers
Sep 11 2020 // The U.S. Labor Department said on Thursday it cited Smithfield Foods for failing to protect employees from the coronavirus, making it the first major U.S. meatpacker to face a fine after outbreaks at slaughterhouses...
