Higginbotham has acquired Fort Worth, Texas-based WhitneySmith Company, a provider of HR advisory services. WhitneySmith will expand the service capacity of Higginbotham’s HR Services division while giving WhitneySmith Company the ability to offer insurance services to its clients. Higginbotham named …
A U.S. federal jury on Tuesday ruled against Sarah Palin in her lawsuit accusing the New York Times of defaming her in a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting, after the presiding judge said he would …
The director of Austin’s water department resigned Feb. 11, days after employee mistakes at a treatment plant put the city under a boil order notice for three days. Austin Water Director Greg Meszaros announced his resignation in a letter Friday, …
Prince Andrew has settled a lawsuit against him by a woman who said he sexually abused her when she was a teenager at the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan and Virgin Island properties. The amount of the settlement …
Hurricane Elsa, which made landfall on July 7, 2021, with winds of 86 mph, caused about $1 billion in damage to the southern United States and multiple Caribbean countries, the National Hurricane Center reported. New data compiled by the center …
Two more property insurers, including one of the largest insurers in Florida, have stopped writing new policies in the state, marking the fifth and sixth carriers this year to pull back from the turbulent Florida waters. “At this time, St. …
Detroit is starting a program to reduce chronic basement flooding during intense storms. The program initially will target two neighborhoods and later expand to others, Mayor Mike Duggan said. The strategy follows major rain events last summer that left thousands …
Jury selection starts Feb. 15 in a trial to determine if engineering contractors bear responsibility for lead-contaminated water in Flint. Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, known as LAN, were not part of the recent $626 million settlement …
Remington Arms will pay $73 million to the families of five adults and four children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the families said on Tuesday, the first time a gunmaker has been held responsible for a mass …
Akron, Ohio-based First Energy announced it has settled a series of shareholder lawsuits seeking corporate reforms in the wake of a bribery and corruption scandal. FirstEnergy in a statement said provisions of the settlement include an agreement that six longtime …
