Crew fatigue brought on by irregular work schedules and a moderate form of sleep apnea is the primary reason behind a middle-of-the-night train crash that killed two Union Pacific workers and injured two others in northern Arkansas, the National Transportation …
The Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration (DIFP) reported that San Francisco-based employee benefits products and services provider, Zenefits, has agreed to pay a penalty of $62,000 for violations of Missouri law. The department said YourPeople Inc., …
Hub International of California has added Antonio Casabat as a senior vice president for the employee benefits consultancy, responsible for client advocacy and consulting on behalf of clients located throughout the United States. Casabat’s primary role is the design, placement …
Doctors, pilots, air traffic controllers and bus drivers have at least one thing in common — if they’re exhausted at work, they could be putting lives at risk. But the development of a new urine test, reported in the ACS …
Technical trade secrets were stolen from the steel production and manufacturing plant design divisions of ThyssenKrupp AG in cyber attacks earlier this year, the German company said on Thursday. ThyssenKrupp, one of the world’s largest steel makers, said it had …
The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has a plan to continue furthering its initiatives within the private flood insurance market in 2017. This comes after the North Central part of the state of Pennsylvania saw flooding in many areas outside of identified …
A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday said weak La Niña conditions were present but favored to dissipate in the coming months. The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center said in a monthly forecast that conditions were likely to transition …
Insurance losses from last month’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake in New Zealand are likely to range between NZ$1.0 to 5.0 billion (US$705 million and US$3.5 billion), according to a report published by Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team. At …
There could be more political surprises coming after the U.S. election of Donald Trump and Britain’s vote to exit from the European Union but one leading insurance executive isn’t too worried. “I don’t think Brexit is going to have nearly …
Lawmakers on Tuesday discussed the idea of merging embattled New Jersey Transit with other state agencies to save money to use for road, bridge and rail projects, and heard from experts about safety upgrades following a fatal rail accident in …
