May 22, 2023
More than 40 years ago, the Illinois legislature sought to reduce the number of defendants in medical malpractice actions by allowing plaintiffs to name health care providers as respondents for the purposes of discovery and convert them to defendants later …
May 22, 2023
Late last week insurtech Pie Insurance held an all-hands meeting during which CEO John Swigart told employees that 14% of them, 66 in all, are being laid off. “This decision was made as part of our wider budget revision process …
May 22, 2023
Compre Group Holdings, a Bermuda-based firm that specializes in acquiring and managing discontinued insurance and reinsurance businesses, has purchased the workers’ compensation portfolio from SUNZ Insurance Co. for an undisclosed sum. The transaction, approved by the Bermuda Monetary Authority, was …
May 22, 2023
Crews searching the rubble of a massive construction fire in North Carolina on Friday found the bodies of two people that firefighters couldn’t reach before the flames became too intense. Authorities didn’t identify the victims, but officials said two workers …
May 22, 2023
The victims of one of Oregon’s deadliest highway crashes were farmworkers traveling in a van at an hour when agricultural laborers typically commute home after toiling in the harvest, the state’s farmworkers union and Mexican officials said. Authorities have not …
May 22, 2023
The Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday that it was scrapping plans to build a new campus in central Florida and relocate 2,000 employees from Southern California to work in digital technology, finance and product development. The decision follows a year …
May 22, 2023
The families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims are preparing to sue Alex Jones’ wife and other family members to help satisfy $1.5 billion in judgments they won from lawsuits against the bankrupt right wing conspiracy theorist over his lies …
May 22, 2023
Exxon Mobil Corp on Friday said an ongoing dispute over oil-spill insurance in Guyana could halt production at its first offshore platform there, cutting revenue by about $350 million per month. A Guyanese court this month found Exxon in breach …
May 22, 2023
Deadly floods in northern Italy will ravage fruit production in what is normally one of the country’s most bountiful agricultural regions, farm lobby Coldiretti said on Monday. Floods killed 14 people last week in Emilia-Romagna as torrential rain caused more …
May 22, 2023
Meta was hit with a record 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) fine by its lead European Union privacy regulator over its handling of user information and given five months to stop transferring users’ data to the United States. The fine, …