The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated Maui County and the Big Island primary natural disaster areas due to losses caused this year by continuing drought. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the announcement Friday in a Washington news release. He …
At least four new surety bonds have hit the market in Texas and Arkansas in the last six months, part of a wave of new bonding requirements nationwide. Brokers in both states are working to stay on top of the …
African nations agreed to resume U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen on Monday after a half-day suspension, accusing rich countries of trying to kill the existing Kyoto Protocol. “We’re going back,” Pa Ousman Jarju from the delegation of Gambia, told Reuters …
Trading powers have made significant progress this week narrowing their differences on non-tariff barriers — the health or safety standards that can be abused to block imports, a senior diplomat said on Thursday. The movement is a rare sign of …
The European Union increased pressure on the International Monetary Fund on Friday to consider a global tax on financial transactions to limit the risk of another economic crisis. In a draft statement expected to be approved on the second day …
Liz Sequeira, a 52-year-old primary care physician, is too young to remember when U.S. doctors made routine house calls. So to her, seeing patients in her three exam rooms on the first floor of Discovery Communications Inc.’s modern headquarters in …
Lawyers for former CBS “Early Show” anchor Mark McEwen have appealed the dismissal of his medical malpractice lawsuit. A federal judge in Baltimore threw out McEwen’s lawsuit earlier this year. The 55-year-old McEwen suffered a massive stroke in November 2005 …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington has designated Grant and Luna counties in New Mexico as primary natural disaster areas due to losses caused by drought and high winds that occurred since Jan. 1. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says …
Bellevue, Wash.-based National Specialty Underwriters Inc. (NSU) a program administrator and specialty wholesale broker, and ACE Westchester, the U.S.-based wholesale-focused property and casualty operation of the ACE Group of Companies, announced that ACE Westchester will begin providing the primary casualty …
States with high homicide rates also tend to have higher rates of traffic deaths than other states, says a University of Michigan researcher. In a new study in the current issue of the journal Traffic Injury Prevention, Michael Sivak of …
