The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed appeals by families of students killed or wounded at Oxford High School in 2021, ending efforts to hold employees partly responsible for the mass shooting. Under Michigan law, […]
When Michael Balarezo emerged from the basement office of his Boulder, Colo., home in December 2021, smoke plumes from the nearby Marshall Fire were visible from his driveway. Balarezo, his wife and daughter swiftly stowed […]
A cargo ship that ran aground in a Norwegian fjord and narrowly missed a house, was pulled back into open water and was being towed to a nearby harbor on Tuesday — five days after […]
The Trump administration said on Wednesday it has agreed to end the U.S. Transportation Department’s consideration of race or gender when awarding billions of dollars in federal highway and transit project funding set aside for […]
The reinsurance industry has shown significant improvements in operating performance in recent years. Despite facing substantial insured natural catastrophe losses globally, reinsurers achieved robust earnings growth in 2023 and 2024 exceeding their cost of capital. […]
No place is more vulnerable to hurricanes in the 50 U.S. states than the Florida Keys. The chain of islands celebrated by singer Jimmy Buffett in his odes to tropical escapism is surrounded by water, […]
A lawsuit filed by the parent company of Florida-based Trident Reciprocal Exchange charges that the insurer’s former CEO and co-founder secretly funneled more than $400,000 to her and her husband’s accounting firm for computer services […]
Canadian property and casualty insurer Definity Financial’s $2.4 billion purchase of Travelers Cos.’ Canadian business could spur a wave of consolidation in Canada’s insurance sector, its CEO said. The deal announced Tuesday will establish Definity […]
Hawaii’s governor signed legislation this week that boosts a tax imposed on hotel room and vacation rental stays in order to raise money to address eroding shorelines, wildfires and other consequences of climate change. The […]
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has reached a settlement agreement with a New Jersey commercial bakery where an employee suffered partial finger amputations in 2023. The company, Valenti’s Bakery, has agreed to […]
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