More States Could Settle Opioid Suits in Wake of West Virginia’s McKesson Deal May 6, 2019 By Jef Feeley McKesson Corp.’s settlement of an opioid lawsuit with West Virginia — the state with the highest U.S. rate of drug-overdose...
Ex-Executives at French Telecoms Group Orange on Trial over Wave of Staff Suicides May 6, 2019 By Emmanuel Jarry and Mathieu Rosemain Former bosses at leading French telecoms group Orange were due to go on trial on Monday over a series of...
Climate Change Threatens One Million Species with Extinction: Scientists May 6, 2019 By Gus Trompiz Relentless pursuit of economic growth, twinned with the impact of climate change, has put an “unprecedented” one million species at...
Berkshire’s Buffett Wants to Do More Business in UK and Europe, Regardless of Brexit May 6, 2019 By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jonathan Stempel Billionaire Warren Buffett wants to do more business in the United Kingdom and Europe regardless of how Brexit turns out....
Aeroflot Plane Makes Fiery Emergency Landing at Moscow Airport, Killing 41 People May 6, 2019 By Natasha Doff and Anurag Kotoky An Aeroflot PJSC plane on a domestic Russian flight made a fiery emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, killing 41...
Insurance Agency Management System Tech Firm Veruna Raises $6 Million May 6, 2019 Veruna, a Massachusetts-based insurance technology developer of an agency management system built on the Salesforce platform, said it completed a...
FDA Says Risks Do Not Warrant Ban on Breast Implants at This Time May 6, 2019 By Matthew Perrone U.S. health authorities will allow a type of breast implant linked to a rare form of cancer to stay on...
Petroleum Industry Revises Standard for Reducing Workers’ Fatigue May 6, 2019 The American Petroleum Institute issued on Thursday a revised standard aimed at reducing fatigue among workers in the nation’s refineries...
Sniffing Out Particles, Singling Out Pigs: Food Industry Urged to Embrace Robots, AI May 6, 2019 By Andrew G. Simpson E.coli in beef. Metal shavings in bread crumbs. Contaminated water on vegetables. The food industry has its share of quality...
JLT Re’s Chandler Joins Reinsurance Broker BMS as U.S. Operations President May 6, 2019 Reinsurance broker BMS Group has named Pete Chandler as president of its U.S. reinsurance operations. Chandler joins from JLT Re,...