Johnson Umeh has plenty of experience as a taxi driver, and he says the job has never been as tough as it is now. Like many drivers, his business is being sapped by Uber and Lyft – the popular ride-hailing …
The driver of a Tesla vehicle involved in a crash in Minnesota on July 16 has denied that its Autopilot system caused the incident, according to an email released by the automaker on Monday. The Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Department said …
A former volunteer firefighter in Indiana was sentenced to at least two decades in prison after he was convicted of arson. Adam Selbee, 20, was sentenced after pleading guilty in May to four counts of arson. The Bloomington Herald-Times reports …
One of Ohio State’s most famous football starshas sued the university over a marketing program he says used athletes’ images without permission and robbed them of compensation. Linebacker Chris Spielman filed the class-action lawsuit in federal court in Columbus on …
Jay Kallas has joined Mayer Brown’s Chicago office as counsel and member of the Global Insurance Industry group. Kallas has 17 years of industry experience and formerly was with Drinker Biddle & Reath. He concentrates his practice on structured insurance …
Insgroup Inc. has added Timothy Thomas as a vice president in its Employee Benefits Practice in Houston. Thomas brings over 30 years’ experience in the insurance industry in both employee benefits and property/casualty insurance. Most recently, Thomas was a senior …
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation is reporting that 441,070 supplemental lien declaration forms were filed. This amount represents half of the 882,648 liens filed in California’s workers’ comp system between Jan. 1, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2016 for which …
R-T Specialty LLC has opened an office in Honolulu, Hawaii. The office is led by Jason A. Witthun and Marie-Louise D. Lundqvist. The Honolulu office handles all excess and surplus lines of business including property catastrophe, commercial/residential property, general liability …
Drought in North Dakota is laying waste to fields of normally bountiful food and hay crops and searing pastures that typically would be home to multitudes of grazing cattle. Some longtime farmers and ranchers say it’s the worst conditions they’ve …
A railroad company is being sued by a former employee who says his injuries from a 2014 train wreck in northwest Arkansas were caused by poor and unsafe work conditions. The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that former Arkansas and Missouri …
