A judge on Monday rejected an effort by the Loudoun County School Board to shut down a special grand jury investigating the school system’s handling of two sexual assaults. The school board says the special grand jury empaneled by Republican …
New York City residents are accustomed to warnings about all kinds of potential threats — severe weather, public health, mass shootings. But a new public service announcement on surviving a nuclear attack has rattled some cages. Released this week by …
A federal lawsuit challenging part of New York’s new gun law was filed by Republican congressional candidate Carl Paladino, one of multiple legal challenges expected against state handgun licensing rules approved after a recent Supreme Court ruling. New York lawmakers …
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin declared a state of emergency Wednesday to assist with response and recovery efforts in the wake of heavy rainfall and severe flooding. Officials estimated that 44 people are missing and more than 100 homes have been …
A Rhode Island woman hired to work for a house cleaning service was fired just days later after management found out that she was pregnant, the woman said in a discrimination lawsuit filed Monday. The lawsuit filed by the American …
A Delaware Superior Court judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state’s Democratic attorney general against agricultural giant Monsanto Co. over environmental damage from now-banned toxic chemicals known as PCBs. In recent years, PCBs have been at the …
New Jersey-headquartered Specialty Program Group (SPG) said it has acquired ESP Insurance Brokerage, a national insurance broker and program administrator for the sports, events and promotion marketing and entertainment industries. Terms were not disclosed. Headquartered in Worcester, Massachusetts, ESP offers …
Amazon worker Gerald Bryson had hand-counted thousands of items in his warehouse’s inventory over three days when his manager showed him a “Supportive Feedback Document.” Bryson had made 22 errors, the 2018 write-up said, including tallying 19 products in a …
A New Jersey insurance agency has failed to convince two courts that a landscape gardening insurance policy for a long-time client was ambiguous enough to also cover tree removal. The agency also struck out with its argument that tree removal …
Agency partnership organization Ensurise announced the merger of the Washington. D.C.-based independent insurance agency Howard & Hoffman, Inc. The merger with Howard & Hoffman, which became effective June 1, 2022, expands Ensurise’s operations in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Howard …
