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Bankruptcy Judge Grants Purdue Pharma Time Out from Government Opioid Litigation
Oct 13 2019 // Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners won a temporary reprieve from nearly 2,700 opioid lawsuits, giving the bankrupt drugmaker time to clinch a deal that would atone for its role in America’s addiction...
More States Now Mandate Employee Training to Prevent Sexual Harassment
Oct 10 2019 // Two years into the #MeToo movement, an unprecedented number of American workers are required to receive mandatory sexual harassment training, the result of a handful of new state regulations aimed at creating safer...
As Many as 40 States Eye Probe of Facebook Over Antitrust, Privacy Concerns
Oct 8 2019 // An estimated 40 U.S. state attorneys general will participate in a probe of Facebook Inc., a source said on Monday, suggesting many more states want allegations of anticompetitive practices at the social media company...
Two Midwest School Districts Join Lawsuit Wave Against Juul Over Vaping
Oct 8 2019 // Two public school districts on Monday sued Juul Labs Inc, accusing the company of endangering their students and draining their resources by marketing its addictive e-cigarettes to teenagers. The St. Charles, Missouri, and...
New York AG Tells Court Opioid Crisis Damage ‘Dwarfs’ Drugmakers’ Resources
Oct 8 2019 // The public cost of coping with the opioid crisis in the U.S. “dwarfs” the combined resources of the companies sued for allegedly causing the epidemic, including OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP, a lawyer for...
New York Limousine Crash Victims’ Relatives Call for Stronger Regulations
Oct 7 2019 // Relatives of some of the 20 people killed in an upstate New York stretch limousine crash urged quick action on safety legislation Thursday so other families won’t have to endure the grief they have carried for the...
Supreme Court’s High-Profile Cases in Its New Term
Oct 7 2019 // The biggest cases before the Supreme Court are often the last ones to be decided, and the focus on the court will be especially intense in June, just a few months before the 2020 election. A look at some of the...
People & Places
Oct 7 2019 // National Credit and political risk insurance brokerage specialist BPL Global has appointed Donnie DiCarlo as executive vice president. He will be based in New York and is charged with expanding BPL’s client base in...
Alliant Hires Guillaume as Senior Vice President in New York
Oct 4 2019 // Alliant has hired David Guillaume as senior vice president based in Syracuse, N.Y. The move comes as Alliant continues to expand its reach and influence in the upstate New York region amid continued growth. In this role,...
New York Court Blocks State Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes
Oct 4 2019 // A New York court on Thursday temporarily halted a state ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, giving the embattled vaping industry a breather just a day before the state’s prohibition was due to take effect. The...
NTSB Calls for National Safety Standards for Limousines Following New York Crash
Oct 3 2019 // The National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday called for new national requirements for seating and seat belt systems on limousines, citing evidence gathered in investigations of accidents in New York, Illinois and...
New York Could Add Menthol to Flavor Ban as Vaping Groups Sue
Oct 1 2019 // New York officials want to add menthol to the state’s first-in-the-nation ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes as the vaping industry seeks to block it, according to the governor’s office. Democratic...
New York Files Suit Against Dunkin’ Donuts Over Security Breaches
Oct 1 2019 // Dunkin’ Donuts violated state law by not notifying almost 20,000 customers, including more than 2,000 in New York, about cyberattacks on their accounts in 2015 and inadequately warning more than 300,000 customers in...
New York Court Denies Industry Request to Delay E-Cigarette Ban
Sep 30 2019 // A state judge has denied the vaping industry’s request to delay a New York emergency ban on flavored e-cigarette sales. Acting state Supreme Court Justice Gerald Connolly on Friday refused to issue a temporary...
Risk Strategies Acquires New York’s Bedrick-Kaitz Agency
Sep 30 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Bedrick-Kaitz Agency Inc. (BKA), a New York City-based firm focused on helping high-net-worth individuals and...
Tractor Trailer Crash Forces Mandatory Evacuations in Upstate New York
Sep 26 2019 // About 80 homes were evacuated after a tractor trailer carrying compressed natural gas overturned on an upstate New York highway. Governor Andrew Cuomo says one person died after the trailer crashed north of Binghamton on...
One Dead After Underground Tank Explodes at New York Gas Station
Sep 25 2019 // Authorities are investigating an explosion in an underground tank at an upstate New York gas station that killed a worker. State police say the explosion happened Friday afternoon at a Speedway station in the town of...
Risk Strategies Acquires New York’s Pro Safety Services
Sep 25 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Pro Safety Services LLC, a provider of safety and loss control services to construction companies, builders and a range...
U.K. PM Johnson Vows to Exit EU (With or Without a Deal) After Historic Court Defeat
Sep 24 2019 // A defiant Boris Johnson hit back at the U.K.’s top judges and vowed to take the country out of the European Union next month, despite suffering an unprecedented legal defeat over his Brexit strategy in the highest...
Police Investigate $350K in Jewelry Thefts at Manhattan’s Trump Tower
Sep 24 2019 // Detectives are investigating the alleged thefts of about $350,000 worth of jewelry from residents in Manhattan’s Trump Tower. Police say the jewelry was stolen from inside two apartments in the building where U.S....
