The North Dakota Water Commission unveiled a new interactive mapping tool that provides residents and community leaders with information on potential flood risks. It shows where flooding might occur and to what extent it could happen in various scenarios, Laura …
No injuries are being reported after an explosion shook a Dow chemical plant in Louisiana. Dow Louisiana Operations said in a Facebook post that a “vessel” had ruptured at its facility near Plaquemine on Sunday morning. The company said there …
Vaping might not be the gateway to teen smoking that many had feared, according to a study. Using e-cigarettes doesn’t raise the likelihood a teenager would smoke, according to a study by U.S. researchers. Smoking can be entirely attributable to …
Charter Communications Inc. unit Time Warner Cable must pay $140 million in damages for infringing five Sprint Corp telecommunications patents after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Time Warner’s appeal in the case. The justices declined to …
Canopius Group Ltd. announced the completion of Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance’s (SFMI) strategic investment in its business. The investment will support Canopius’s growth arising from the recent acquisition of AmTrust at Lloyd’s and merger with its own Lloyd’s interests, …
A Colorado city has agreed to pay $125,000 to a man who says a city police officer tackled him after helping another man break into his home two years ago. The Gazette reported Wednesday that 72-year-old William Michael Clark filed …
Wawanesa General Insurance has secured an eight-year lease on a new San Diego home office at 7650 Mission Valley Road. The 73,970-square-foot building is one-and-a-half miles from the company’s current location on Friars Road, which Wawanesa has been in the …
Five Montana hospitals are settling a lawsuit that claimed they made a deal with an insurer to inflate employee health coverage prices in return for $26 million. The hospitals, which deny wrongdoing, agreed to pay $6.9 million to employees to …
Airbnb’s CEO said the company was taking actions against unauthorized parties in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Halloween party held at an Airbnb rental home in California. In a series of tweets, Brian Chesky said Saturday the …
A federal lawsuit has accused top Delaware insurance department officials of workplace sexual and racial harassment. The Delaware News Journal reports an insurance department employee announced the suit Wednesday accusing Commissioner Trinidad Navarro of inappropriately touching her cornrows and making …
