New Jersey is creating a strategic innovation center for financial (fintech) and insurance (insurtech) technology startups in a partnership with Silicon Valley-based innovation platform Plug and Play. The new innovation hub will be known as the Fintech Accelerator at Stevens …
The husband of a Connecticut visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday, alleging her employer repeatedly ignored workers’ safety concerns about treating dangerous patients. Ronald Grayson sued Elara Caring, …
Insurance broker Hub International Limited announced it has acquired the assets of William R. Cargill Insurance Agency, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Based in Topsfield, Massachusetts, Cargill Insurance is a family owned and operated insurance agency providing …
A steel drum weighing thousands of pounds somehow rolled out of a construction site in Pittsburgh and eventually struck and killed a woman who was walking on a nearby sidewalk, police said. The accident occurred around 10:40 a.m. last Friday …
A bridge damaged in a fiery crash that kept Interstate 95 in Connecticut closed Thursday and Friday has been demolished. A live camera operated by the Connecticut Department of Transportation on Saturday showed excavators and bucket loaders scooping up rubble …
JM Wilson Hires Kemp as Transportation Renewal Underwriter JM Wilson, headquartered in Portage, Michigan, hired Corey Kemp as transportation renewal underwriter. Kemp is responsible for underwriting renewal commercial transportation accounts, corresponding with carrier underwriters and maintaining relationships with independent agents …
Massachusetts’s highest court on Monday weighed whether ballot proposals that would redefine the relationship between app-based companies like Uber Technologies and Lyft and their drivers should be allowed to go before voters in November. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justices expressed …
Maryland plans to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in just over four years at an estimated cost between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion, a state transportation official said Thursday. The state plans to build a new span by fall …
Massachusetts has become the latest front in a years-long battle in the United States over whether ride-share drivers for Uber and Lyft should be treated as independent contractors or employees entitled to benefits and wage protections. The state’s top court …
Savage River Lodge and Little Crossings will pay $150,000 and furnish equitable relief to settle federal charges that they discriminated against an employee because of her pregnancy and then fired her. The Frostburg, Maryland businesses, part of Fronterra Resources, offer …
