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Cannabis Banking Challenges in Legal States Go Far Beyond Pot
Oct 16 2019 // Kat Merryfield was ready to share her farm-to-home oils, chocolates and creams with the rest of the country. But banks and credit card processors weren’t ready to work with her small business. “We started out...
More Research Needed Into How Crash Risk Is Related to Roadway Design
Oct 15 2019 // How dangerous is travel in the United States? It depends on how the question is framed. If it’s risk per kilometer (about 6/10ths of a mile), the U.S. has 6.71 deaths per billion vehicle kilometers of travel compared...
Price Forbes Launches U.S. Healthcare Practice Headed by JLT Hires
Oct 15 2019 // London-based specialty broker Price Forbes has launched a U.S. healthcare practice headed by market veterans Paul Voller and David Fairbank, who are joining from JLT Group. Based out of London the practice will focus on...
Behind the Foggy Curtain: A Peek Into Secret U.S. Cybersecurity Operation
Oct 15 2019 // The National Security Agency is normally so secretive that its creation was classified, leading to the nickname “No Such Agency.” But in a move that surely caused hand-wringing and murmurs among the...
J&J’s Legal Beating May Only Get Worse with Baby Powder, Opioid, Hip and Other Claims
Oct 14 2019 // Johnson & Johnson has taken some costly beatings in court this year. And it could get worse. Just last week, a jury ordered J&J to pay $8 billion for wrongfully pushing doctors to prescribe the anti-psychotic drug...
Hurricane Dorian Ties as Strongest Landfalling Atlantic Hurricane on Record: Aon
Oct 14 2019 // Hurricane Dorian made landfalls in the Bahamas, North Carolina, and Canada in early September, bringing total economic and insured losses in the billions, according to Aon’s monthly Global Catastrophe Recap...
Berkshire’s MedPro Acquires Swiss Re Corporate Health Care Liability Business
Oct 14 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway health care liability insurance unit MedPro Group has agreed to acquire the healthcare professional liability business of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions effective Oct. 11. The agreement includes hospital...
Vaping-Related Illnesses Could be Due to Multiple Causes: U.S. Health Agencies
Oct 11 2019 // U.S. health officials said on Friday there may be more than one cause to the outbreak of the mysterious lung illness linked to e-cigarette use and said they do not see a meaningful drop in new cases. As of Tuesday, 1,299...
Iranian Oil Tanker Struck, Probably by Missiles: Iran Media
Oct 11 2019 // An Iranian-owned oil tanker was struck, probably by missiles, in the Red Sea off Saudi Arabia’s coast on Friday, Iranian media said, an incident that if confirmed will stoke tension in a region rattled by attacks on...
Court Allows Judge Opposed by Drug Firms to Oversee Nationwide Opioid Trial
Oct 11 2019 // A federal appeals court on Thursday cleared the way for a landmark trial over the nation’s opioid crisis, rejecting a bid by eight drug retailers and distributors to disqualify the judge, and a request by Ohio and...
Global Safety Regulators Fault U.S., ‘Undue Pressure’ from Boeing for 737 Max Approval
Oct 11 2019 // U.S. aviation regulators assessing Boeing Co.’s 737 Max sometimes didn’t follow their own rules, used out-of-date procedures and lacked the resources and expertise to fully vet the design changes implicated in...
Cannabis Industry: More Regs Will Help Address Vaping Crisis
Oct 10 2019 // In the midst of a vaping crisis that has gripped the nation’s cannabis industry what is needed most right are more regulations. Believe it or not, that was a message from the industry itself. A group of expert...
Hurricane Michael: One Year Later, Federal Aid for Recovery Totals Nearly $2B
Oct 10 2019 // Since Hurricane Michael made landfall Oct. 10, 2018, federal assistance for recovery in the 18 affected counties is nearly $1.9 billion, including FEMA grants, National Flood Insurance Program payments and U.S. Small...
How States, Cities Compare on Rates of Health Uninsured
Oct 10 2019 // With the national rate of Americans lacking health insurance on the rise again, the personal finance website WalletHub released a report on uninsured rates by city and by state. The national uninsured rate rose in 2018 to...
Holocaust Survivors Want Congress to Let Them Sue Insurers Over Nazi-Era Losses
Oct 10 2019 // When David Schaecter was a child in Slovakia in the 1930s, he counted more than 100 people in his extended family. By the end of World War II, he alone survived. The rest had been killed in Nazi concentration camps or by...
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...
Government Has Bought 43,000 Flood-Prone Homes; Poor Often Left Behind
Oct 10 2019 // As the climate crisis worsens, more Americans will be forced from their homes. Many won’t be able to afford it, and the U.S. isn’t prepared for a massive, government-subsidized migration away from flood-prone...
CRU GROUP Adds Lalaian to Executive Team in the Southeast
Oct 10 2019 // CRU Group has hired Tim Lalaian to the company as vice president of its Southeast Region. In this role, Lalaian is responsible for CRU Group’s operational service delivery and client relationships across this...
Halliburton to Settle National Origin, Religious Discrimination Suit for $275K
Oct 9 2019 // Houston-based Halliburton Energy Services Inc. will pay $275,000 and furnish other relief to settle a national origin and religious discrimination lawsuit, federal officials say. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
J&J Hit with Year’s Largest Jury Award Over Marketing Risperdal Drug to Teens
Oct 9 2019 // Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen unit was hit with an $8 billion punitive-damages verdict — the largest jury award in the U.S. this year — over its alleged mishandling of an anti-psychotic drug blamed for...
