November 27, 2018
Ten lawsuits have been filed against the owners of a Florida outdoor mall where authorities say a gunman opened fire at an online video game tournament, killing two people, wounding several others and then fatally shooting himself. The Florida Times-Union …
November 27, 2018
Advantage Insurance of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is no one’s idea of a financial colossus. But this little insurance company is making a giant bet on some of the hottest investments around: collateralized loan obligations. That a company with about …
November 27, 2018
An Alabama steel company is being fined more than $320,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration over hazardous working conditions. Al.com reports OSHA announced the fine Nov. 13 for Montgomery-based Sabel Steel Service Inc. An agency news release says …
November 27, 2018
State environmental officials have proposed a consent order calling on a North Carolina chemical plant to reduce emissions of a compound and pay a $12 million civil penalty. The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality said in a news release Nov. …
November 26, 2018
A Texas-based oil and gas company will pay $50,000 to settle a racial harassment lawsuit involving a black employee in North Dakota. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced the settlement Wednesday with Houston-based Murex Petroleum Corp. According to the …
November 26, 2018
The company that owns a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake in the summer, killing 17 people, has settled the first of several lawsuits filed in the accident. William Bright, 65, and his 63-year-old wife, Janice, of Higginsville, …
November 26, 2018
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Buckman-Mitchell Inc., with offices in Visalia and Fresno, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Clifford Dunbar, Judy Fussel, Brent Swanson, Todd Williams, Stephan Chrisman, Linda Loflin and their associates will continue …
November 26, 2018
AXA, France’s biggest insurer, has extended its climate change policy to its recently acquired XL division, joining a growing list of European insurers that have taken action to help to tackle global warming. AXA, Europe’s second largest insurer after Allianz, …
November 26, 2018
Authorities have traced a multi-state listeria outbreak which has hospitalized four people to a Houston-based Vietnamese food manufacturer. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Long Phung Food Products issued a recall for seven types of pork rolls that have been …
November 26, 2018
Authorities say a worker in Pine Bluff, Ark. has died after he was electrocuted at a cottonseed oil plant. Pine Bluff police say the employee was changing switches in an electrical cage at Planters Cotton Oil Mill on Monday when …