California Governor Gavin Newsom last month signed a bill that limits warehouse employers like Amazon.com Inc. from setting productivity quotas, the first legislation of its kind in the United States. The new provisions require all companies using warehouse labor to …
Federal lawmakers introduced legislation in late September that would change 19th century maritime liability rules in response to the 2019 boat fire off the coast of Southern California that killed 34 people. The bill would update the Limitation of Liability …
A top Southern Baptist Convention committee agreed to fund a third-party investigation into its handling of sexual abuse allegations but held off on waiving its attorney-client privilege for the probe, delaying for the future a decision seen as a key …
Citizens Property Insurance Corp. president Barry Gilway said at a board of governors meeting that the organization is considering “all ideas to reduce exposure” as policies mount by the thousands. Gilway said Citizens is accepting policies at a rate of …
Hurricane Ida’s winds and floods did at least $584 million in damage to agriculture in Louisiana, experts at the LSU AgCenter estimate. More than half of that — $315.9 million — is timber damage, with another $207 million, or 35% …
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined a Tampa battery recycling center and smelter almost $320,000 for exposing workers to unsafe levels of lead, cadmium and arsenic, despite being warned about its practices last year, OSHA announced. Envirofocus …
A Houston businessman has been sentenced to prison for an insurance fraud scheme and ordered to pay more than $1.8 million in restitution, federal officials say. According to Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei for the Eastern District of Texas, …
JZZ Technologies Inc. has acquired Florida-based Beacon Insurance Solutions, part of its continuing effort to reach the senior adult market with insurance and other services, the companies announced. “Following this acquisition by JZZ Technologies Inc., I expect we will be …
Preliminary tests indicate iron-contaminated wastewater that leaked from a northwestern Indiana steel plant into a Lake Michigan tributary presents no risk to public health, the Environmental Protection Agency said. U.S. Steel Midwest idled the plant in Portage, about 30 miles …
Defense company Northrop Grumman knew for more than a decade that chemicals from a site it owns near Missouri’s Springfield-Branson Airport were contaminating groundwater in surrounding property, according to a federal lawsuit filed Sept. 29. The lawsuit claims Northrop Grumman, …
