Monthly Archives: <span>August 2024</span>

UK Tones Down Worker ‘Right to Switch Off’ Demands on Firms

Britain’s Labour government is watering down ambitions to give employees a legal right to ignore work demands outside office hours, favoring softer rules that had limited impact for workers in Ireland. Rather than seeking legislation for the “right to switch …

IICF Makes Mid-year Push for Contributions Aiming to Surpass $50 Million Goal Marking 30 years of Community Impact across the US and UK

LOS ANGELES – August 21, 2024 – The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping communities and enriching lives, is making a mid-year fundraising push as it strives to surpass its goal of $50 million in …

Update: Japan Issues Emergency Warning as Powerful Typhoon Shanshan Approaches

Southwestern Japan braced on Wednesday for what officials say could be one of the strongest storms to ever hit the region, as some residents in the path of Typhoon Shanshan were ordered to evacuate and major firms like Toyota closed …

Update: US Warns Leaking Oil Tanker Poses Growing Red Sea Pollution Risk

An abandoned oil tanker attacked in the Red Sea by Iran-backed Houthi rebels a week ago appears to be burning and leaking, raising the specter of an environmental disaster, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday. The comments are the latest …

Michigan Golf Club Pays $440K Settlement for Alleged Fraudulent Pandemic Loan

RICHLAND, Mich. (AP) — A golf club in southwestern Michigan has agreed to pay $440,000 to settle allegations that it wrongly obtained a loan through a federal program during the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities said Monday. Gull Lake Country Club, near …

Missouri Football Field to Feature Shelter Insurance Logo in New Form of Advertisement

When the nationally ranked University of Missouri Tigers football team takes the field Thursday for its season opener against Murray State, fans will notice something unusual on the field: sponsored logos. A new rule change by the NCAA allows sponsorships …

Delaware Top Court Will Hear Drugmakers’ Appeal to End Zantac Lawsuits

Delaware’s highest court said on Tuesday it will hear an appeal by GSK and other drugmakers seeking to end more than 70,000 lawsuits claiming discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer. GSK, Pfizer, Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim are asking the court …

Wearable Sensors Can Predict Overheating but Is There Privacy Risk?

On a hot summer day in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, dozens of men removed pipes, asbestos and hazardous waste while working to decontaminate a nuclear facility and prepare it for demolition. Dressed in head-to-toe coveralls and fitted with respirators, the crew …

NC High Court Allows Liquidation of Lindberg Insurers; He Owes $524M in Fed Case

Greg Lindberg, the North Carolina insurance and business executive now awaiting sentencing on a bribery conviction, can’t escape a $524 million arbitration and civil judgment against him, a federal appeals court decided this week. Also this week, the state Supreme …

Ban on Switchblades Violates Second Amendment: Massachusetts High Court

A 1957 Massachusetts law banning the possession of certain switchblades violates the federal Second Amendment right to bear arms, the highest court in Massachusetts has ruled. The state court found that switchblades qualify as “arms” under the Second Amendment and …