May 22, 2024
RT Specialty, headquartered in Chicago, made several promotions in its Hamilton, New Jersey office, part of the RT Specialty Environmental and Construction Professional Practice (RT ECP). Daniel Wilhelm was promoted to account executive. He joined the company in 2018 as …
May 22, 2024
The owners of two Northern California mushroom farms where a farmworker killed seven people in back-to-back shootings last year will pay more than $450,000 in back wages and damages to 62 workers, the Labor Department announced. The owners of California …
May 22, 2024
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina board that regulates land surveyors didn’t violate a drone photography pilot’s constitutional rights when it told him to stop advertising and offering aerial map services because he lacked a state license, a federal …
May 22, 2024
Companies working with the US government may be required to start protecting their data and technology from attacks by quantum computers as soon as July. The National Institute for Standards and Technology, part of the Department of Commerce, will in …
May 22, 2024
A community college dean who was injured when she fell after she turned in a hallway to address a colleague is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled. Mary Pat O’Brien, dean of nursing …
May 22, 2024
The number of U.S. consumers who shopped for auto insurance in rose in the first quarter, largely driven by consumers in the West and Midwest. The findings show a continuation of strong growth in shopping at the end of last …
May 22, 2024
NormanMax Insurance Holdings, the Miami, Florida-based parametric re/insurance group, has launched Lloyd’s Syndicate 3939, in partnership with third-party managing agent Apollo. NormanMax Syndicate 3939 is the first syndicate to focuse on natural catastrophe parametric re/insurance products for hurricane, tropical cyclone, …
May 22, 2024
One moment Toby Pearl was ensconced in his economy-class seat in row 43 aboard a flight from London to Singapore. The next all hell broke loose, with personal belongings, food and even people being hurled around the cabin, crashing into …
May 22, 2024
Passengers injured by severe turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight on Tuesday are likely eligible for compensation, but the amount each receives could differ dramatically even for identical injuries due to an international treaty. One passenger died and the airline …
May 22, 2024
The heavy downpours seen in the UK and Ireland last fall and winter were about 20% worse because of climate change, a new scientific report found. The region saw as many as 14 severe storms between October and March, flooding …