Oregon Gay Bullying Lawsuit Settled for $5,000 January 13, 2014 The Eugene School District has paid $5,000 to settle an Oregon lawsuit that accused it of failing to stop students...
2 New Mexico Cities Opening Car Charging Stations January 13, 2014 Two New Mexico cities are preparing to begin operating public charging stations for electric vehicles. In late December 2013 Gallup...
California Tops ‘Judicial Hellhole’ List January 13, 2014 By Don Jergler California isn’t just a warm place to live, which is often the case even in winter, but it turns out...
People – West January 13, 2014 Equity Risk Partners named four insurance industry executives to its team in California, while also establishing the firm’s physical presence...
Failing to Make the Case for Rate Regulation January 13, 2014 By Bill Gausewitz In 1988 California voters enacted Proposition 103, in one stroke changing the state’s law regulating insurance rates from one of...
California Servers Awarded $5.7M in Age Discrimination Suit January 13, 2014 A jury awarded nearly $5.7 million to four servers who alleged they were fired from a Los Angeles restaurant because...
Flood Maps Still Wrong, Oregon Homeowners Still Paying January 13, 2014 By Andrea Castillo, and Katherine Driessen, The Oregonian Months after Carol Justice was wrongly told her home needs flood insurance, the Cornelius resident is still paying up –...
Mother of Wyoming Student Wrestler Sues Hospital January 13, 2014 The mother of a 16-year-old boy who was paralyzed after breaking two vertebrae during high school wrestling practice filed a...
Portrait of an Employee Fraudster January 13, 2014 By Stephanie K. Jones Schemes Depend on Opportunity, Incentive, Rationalization It may come as a surprise to some that the typical fraudster in the...
People – South Central January 13, 2014 Alan W. Ponder has joined the Houston office of insurance brokerage and financial services firm, Higginbotham, as assistant vice president...