It’s part of just about every cannabis conversation: “Hey, it looks like we’re close to seeing cannabis legalized. Is this the year?” There are three promising cannabis bills in Congress – two that would legalize or at least decriminalize cannabis, …
The California Labor Commissioner’s Office cited Bodega Latina (dba El Super grocery stores) in Southern California $1,164,500 for failing to provide or delaying supplemental paid sick leave or other benefits to 240 workers at 38 locations affected by COVID-19. An …
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association expects policies in-force to increase by 5.2% in 2022, according to preliminary budget information shared at a Board of Directors meeting Oct. 25. Policies will increase from a projected 194,054 at December 31, 2021 to …
To reduce employee exposure to health hazards and encourage companies to make workplace safety and health a priority, the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s regional office in Kansas City has established a Regional Emphasis Program targeting …
The global insurance industry can currently expect a long-run annual average loss of $106 billion and a greater than a 40% chance of experiencing an annual loss of more than $200 billion in the next decade, according to Boston-based modeling …
U.S. health officials may have solved the mystery of how four people in different states came down with a serious tropical disease even though none had traveled internationally: an aromatherapy spray imported from India. The Centers for Disease Control and …
The MEMIC Group Hires Pennsylvania’s Beswick, Delaware’s Grandrino Cindy Beswick of Pennsylvania and Angela Grandrino of Delaware have been appointed as senior production underwriter and production underwriter, respectively, by workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group. Their appointments support MEMIC’s continued …
A small earthquake near downtown Los Angeles on Sunday morning was felt widely across Southern California, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed. The magnitude 3.6 quake hit just after 7 a.m. and was centered about a mile south-southeast of the Boyle …
This article originally appeared in Carrier Management. Digital home insurer Hippo hired a former Hiscox executive to be its first chief claims officer, with a mission to expand claims operations for the now publicly-traded California-based InsurTech as it grows nationally. …
Driving a truck too fast and injuring a fellow officer during a firearms training is not within the scope of employment duties for a Massachusetts police officer, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found. This means his insurer is on the …
