Authorities say a commercial truck carrying an unknown chemical has exploded on a highway in south Arkansas, killing one person and creating a massive crater in the road. The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management says one person was killed in …
A Houston-area petrochemical storage company that was heavily damaged by fire has received hundreds of compensation claims from residents seeking lost wages and other damages, a company executive said. Brent Weber, a senior vice president for Intercontinental Terminals Company, told …
Businesses and residents expressed concern on March 25 about the environmental and economic fallout from a fire at a Houston-area petrochemical storage farm that sent huge plumes into the air for days and prompted the partial closure of one of …
Houston-based Tokio Marine HCC has promoted Christopher Skarinka, chief operating officer for its Professional Lines and Public Risk Groups, to president of the Public Risk Group, effective April 1. He succeeds Thomas Harmeyer, who will continue to serve the division …
A packaging company in Monroe, Louisiana, has agreed to pay $70,000 in lost wages and damages, and provide other significant relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit. The suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), alleges …
The U.S. Gulf Coast’s most important industrial waterway partially reopened on Monday after it was polluted with cancer-causing benzene and toxic runoff from the region’s worst chemical disaster in more than a decade. A two-mile (3.2-kilometer) stretch of the Houston …
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr is warning consumers in his state to be wary of individuals posing as car insurance agents to sell fraudulent policies at car dealerships. In a media release, Kerr said the Criminal Investigation Division at the …
Deerfield Beach, Florida-based workers’ compensation carrier Normandy Insurance Co. is now offering workers’ compensation insurance to small, mid-size and large businesses in Arkansas. The company said it has entered four new states in 2019. In addition to Arkansas, Normandy now …
Purdue Pharma LP has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma accusing the OxyContin painkiller maker of helping fuel an opioid abuse epidemic, a person familiar with the matter said. It is the first settlement to result …
A state panel has voted to ban use of older versions of an herbicide, clarifying rules it previously agreed upon in February. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the state Plant Board on Friday unanimously approved an emergency rule to ban the …
