May 30, 2014
The fiery fight is apparently over between the makers of a popular and tasty hot sauce and a small Southern California city that said its factory’s smells were unbearable, after the Irwindale City Council voted to drop a public nuisance …
May 30, 2014
San Diego, Calif.-based CMR Risk & Insurance Services Inc. named Grisell Sparkman an account manager for the construction division as well as manager for the small business unit. Grisell has more than 10 years of experience in the commercial lines …
May 30, 2014
All New Jersey homeowners who were put on a waiting list for the state’s signature post-Superstorm Sandy housing program will receive funding to rebuild, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday. Christie said at a town hall-style meeting in Stafford …
May 30, 2014
Advocates for people with HIV and AIDS charged that insurers including Aetna Inc., Humana Inc. and Cigna Corp. have discriminated against Obamacare patients in Florida infected with the virus. The Tampa-based AIDS Institute and the National Health Law Program, an …
May 30, 2014
Banco Santander SA’s U.S. unit was sued by the city of Providence, Rhode Island, over claims it stopped issuing mortgages in minority neighborhoods after the housing bubble burst, the latest in a series of discrimination lawsuits against lenders by U.S. …
May 30, 2014
A West Virginia website will provide information and online registration for aboveground storage tank owners to comply with a new law. The site explains the law written in response to a January chemical spill. The Department of Environmental Protection estimates …
May 30, 2014
By December, Holly Ellis and Brendan Spiegel had nailed down most of the details of their upcoming July wedding by signing a contract that would take care of just about everything – from food to flowers to music. “We were …
May 30, 2014
Google’s driverless car and Apple’s deal to buy Beats Electronics, primarily for its streaming music service, represent the latest moves in a battle between two visions of the sharing economy: One in which the goods being shared belong to the …
May 30, 2014
This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. More than 21,500 fires have burned nearly 700,000 acres so far in 2014 (as of May 29, 2014), and these fires have been caused by both lightning strikes and more …
May 30, 2014
In his discussion of the effects of climate change at the European insurance Forum in Dublin, Prof. Richard Tol of the Economics Dept. of the University of Sussex, pointed out that even “after 40 years all climate models still aren’t …