New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed a new law requiring retailers to boost safety protections for store workers, including requiring major chains to add panic buttons in all New York State locations. Unions representing retail workers had pushed …
A storm system in the Gulf of Mexico is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane early this week, bringing heavy rain, damaging winds and potentially life-threatening storm surges to parts of the Texas and Louisiana coastlines. The system is forecast …
Nearly four years after California voters approved better wages and health benefits for ride-hailing drivers and delivery workers, no one is actually ensuring they are provided, according to state agencies, interviews with workers and a review of wage claims filed …
With its vast expanses of forest, Canada has the most “certified” sustainable timber operations of any nation, according to the nonprofit organizations that attest to the environmental soundness of logging practices. Such forestry-standards groups were born in the 1990s out …
The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that registration for the next round of Louisiana Fortify Homes Program (LFHP) grants will open at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, September 18, and close at 5 p.m. on Friday, September 20. While previous grant …
The Iowa Insurance Division entered into a consent order with a Midwest roofing contractor on Sept. 5 following a June cease and desist order against contractors acting as unlicensed public adjusters. IID alleges that AmeriPro Roofing solicited business to Greenfield, …
Drought across the central US is shrinking the Mississippi River, sending barge rates soaring and threatening to roil shipments of everything from corn to gasoline. Dry conditions across the Ohio River basin, which feeds the Mississippi, have worsened already low …
The owners of London’s ExCel conference center on Friday won an appeal brought by insurers, including Allianz, over pandemic-related losses, which its lawyers said could help thousands of other policyholders. London International Exhibition Centre Plc took legal action at London’s …
ROUND LAKE, Ill. (AP) — Nineteen people have been hurt after a jail transport van collided Wednesday with another vehicle and struck a pole in northeastern Illinois. Sixteen prisoners were in the van that was traveling to the McHenry County …
The U.S. Transportation Department said on Thursday it is awarding $1 billion for a series of projects aimed at reducing traffic crashes, as road deaths remain sharply higher than pre-pandemic levels. The department separately on Thursday estimated that 18,720 people …
