Judge: Landowners cannot sue Forest Service over lost homes Bitterroot Valley, Mont., residents who alleged their homes were destroyed when firefighters lit a backburn to slow encroaching flames cannot sue the U.S. Forest Service over their losses, a federal judge …
Employers are paying more attention to worker and workplace safety, which is helping states like Hawaii and Wyoming to reduce its workers’ compensation rates. Hawaii, Washington, Wyoming bringing down workers’ comp rates Hawaii, Washington and Wyoming proposed lowering workers’ compensation …
Associations oppose eliminating contingent commissions The attorneys general of New York, Connecticut and Illinois are continuing their fight against anti-competitive practices in the insurance industry. In doing so, they have been finding fault with contingent commissions paid to insurance brokers …
Bill introduced to allow DOI to oversee California State Fund California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi have jointly submitted legislation, inserted into Assembly Bill 2125, to establish oversight responsibility and regulatory authority for the State Compensation Insurance …
The lawsuits were an attempt to enforce immigration law by creating a deterrent against hiring illegal employees. Businesses file first in series of lawsuits against competitors Frustrated businesses took their fight against illegal immigration to court in August, filing the …
Study hits states without helmet laws According to a study by Jeffrey Coben, M.D., a researcher at West Virginia University, states that do not require motorcycle riders and passengers to wear helmets may be contributing to the unnecessary deaths, hospitalizations, …
Study urges better efforts to prevent teen worker injuries A new survey of 6,810 teens showed that more than half of them work, and 514 of them had been injured on the job. “The findings from this study clearly indicate …
Mass. weighs health insurance minimum payments Massachusetts officials are grappling to come up with how much lower-income residents should have to pay for insurance under the state’s landmark health care reform law that requires citizens to procure coverage. Health care …
There are “35 million people living along the hurricane-prone coast that stretches from North Carolina to Texas. Half of these live in Florida, 10 million on the Atlantic coast and seven million on the Gulf coast. As rising seas and …
Six in 10 businesses now buying terror coverage, Marsh reports Nearly six in 10 large and mid-sized U.S. businesses obtained insurance to cover property terrorism risks during 2005, a dramatic increase from the 2003 average of 27 percent and up …
