U.S. regulations that bar companies such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. from providing banking services need to be reviewed as they reduce competition thereby concentrating more risk among a smaller number of banks, a U.S. banking regulator said on Wednesday. At …
A northern New Mexico man is suing Walgreens over claims a pharmacist erroneously filled a prescription for him, and that anti-anxiety drug led to a suicide attempt. The Santa Fe New Mexican reported an attorney for Anthony Gonzales filed a …
A jury has awarded a female Vancouver, Wash. engineer $251,100 for her lawsuit against the Clark County Community Development Department. The Columbian reports that the jury ruled staff at the department defamed and discriminated against Anne Anderson, principal engineer of …
A jury has awarded $12 million to a Tucson, Ariz. woman who was severely incapacitated by an alleged hospital medical error. Pima County Superior Court jurors ruled in favor of Esmeralda Tripp and against the University of Arizona Health Network, …
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended 21 more medical providers from participating in California’s workers’ comp system, bringing the total number of providers suspended this year to 73. The suspensions were made possible by the passage last year …
Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo will launch a ride-hailing service with no human behind the steering wheel and has been testing the fully self-driving cars on public roads in Arizona, Chief Executive John Krafcik said on Tuesday. The test without a human …
American International Group recently made two major domestic executive appointments: Lex Baugh is AIG’s new chief executive officer for North America General Insurance, and George Stratts has been named CEO of AIG’s surplus lines unit, Lexington Insurance Co. Baugh is …
Taxi companies across the U.S. waged a bitter, high-profile battle to keep Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. from bringing the sharing economy to cabs. They lost. Now the cabbies are adopting a if-you-can’t-beat-them, join-them-strategy. Pittsburgh Yellow Cab, for example, …
Sullivan Insurance Group is continuing to grow its personal lines department with the addition of Shilo E. Eisnor. Eisnor has worked in the insurance industry for twenty years at several agencies, most recently at the Kaplansky Agency in Milford, Mass. …
The family of a woman killed in a 2010 crash involving a “Melrose Place” actress will receive a $4.8 million settlement. NJ.com reports most of the money will come from the hosts of a party where actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer was …
