A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider its previous ruling that businesses don’t have to prove they were directly harmed by BP’s 2010 Gulf Of Mexico oil spill to collect settlement payments. The decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit …
Atlanta-based insurance broker Beecher Carlson Insurance Services reported that Steele Hutto has joined the firm as business development specialist focused on the healthcare industry. Hutto will be based in the Nashville office and report to Kevin Gabhart, managing director. Hutto …
The National Mobile Disaster Hospital has opened in a Mississippi city where the local hospital was heavily damaged by an April 28 tornado. It opened Monday in Louisville, and will be used until Winston Medical Center is rebuilt. Local physicians, …
Construction crews in Tennessee are working to fill a sinkhole that opened at Austin Peay State University’s Governors Stadium. The Leaf-Chronicle reported the sinkhole started out small, about 3 feet by 5 feet, but workers have had to dig a …
A former insurance agent who has been active in Democratic Party politics has won her party’s primary for the Georgia insurance commissioner post and will face off against the incumbent Republican in the November election. Another former insurance agent did …
A northern New Jersey firm will get a $23.8 million contract to build a protective steel sea wall in two of the shore communities hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy. The state’s Environmental Protection Department announced the deal with EIC Associates …
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked a judge to dismiss American International Group Inc.’s lawsuit against the state’s top financial regulator, saying the insurer is trying to interfere with a probe of unlicensed overseas insurance sales. “The investigation of …
Regardless of size, American businesses say medical cost inflation, legal liabilities and technology risks are among their top concerns, according to an annual Business Risk Index from Travelers. The survey polled more than 1,100 business decision makers on what they …
Three U.S. public companies identified as Chinese hacking victims didn’t report the theft of trade secrets and other data to investors, despite rules designed to disclose significant events. Two of the companies — aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. and metals supplier …
The leading U.S. health insurance trade group on Tuesday hit out at the extremely high cost of new specialty medicines, accusing drugmakers of taking advantage of the insurance system by pricing products at unsustainable levels. The latest salvo in the …
