San Diego will pay nearly $100,000 to a former city Streets Division worker who filed a lawsuit claiming he faced discrimination because he is Black and was retaliated against for complaining about unsafe work conditions. The Union-Tribune reports the City …
A man who owned a Southern California pharmacy was sentenced to over five years in prison after he admitted submitting more than $13 million in fraudulent insurance claims for expensive medication. Thu Van Le, 42, pleaded guilty in July to …
A former employee of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was sentenced to 78 days in jail, to be spent on weekends, for accepting more than $40,000 in bribes in exchange for providing personal identifying information of traffic crash victims and …
A federal judge in Florida has ordered multinational construction firm Skanska to pay more than $92,000 after the court found that the company had destroyed potential evidence after 23 barges broke loose during a hurricane and damaged a bridge and …
Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG), an operator of specialty insurance brokerages and underwriting facilities, acquired the assets of CM&F Group, a digital provider of healthcare liability insurance coverage for individuals and groups. CM&F, formerly Cotterell, Mitchell & Fifer, was founded …
President Joe Biden partially granted a request for a major disaster declaration in response to storms that severely damaged much of Cheshire and Sullivan counties in New Hampshire, Governor Chris Sununu said Monday. The request was granted for the storms …
QUETTA, Pakistan – An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 hit southern Pakistan in the early hours of Thursday, killing 20 people, most of them women and children, and injuring about 300, at a time when many victims were asleep, authorities said. …
A Nigerian oil producer sued Royal Dutch Shell Plc for more than $2 billion over the ownership of oil wells, intensifying a dispute around an asset sale completed six years ago. Aiteo Eastern E&P Co. Ltd. claims that Shell falsely …
The Transportation Security Administration will introduce regulations that compel the most important U.S. railroad and airport operators to improve their cybersecurity procedures, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Wednesday. The upcoming changes will make it mandatory for “higher-risk” rail …
Australia’s top law officer has written to her state counterparts urging them to redraft the country’s defamation law after a High Court ruling that publishers of social media posts are liable for reader comments sent shockwaves through the media sector. …
