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Dakota Access Pipeline Loses Supreme Court Appeal, Leaving Its Future Unclear
Feb 23 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Energy Transfer LP’s Dakota Access Pipeline, letting stand a ruling that required a new federal environmental analysis and left the pipeline vulnerable to being shut...
U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Clash Between Religion and LGBT Rights
Feb 23 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday took up a major new legal fight pitting religious beliefs against LGBT rights, agreeing to hear an evangelical Christian web designer’s free speech claim that she cannot be forced...
J&J Unit Proposes Independent Exam If It Remains in Bankruptcy
Feb 23 2022 // A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary proposed on Friday that it would submit to an independent examination of the corporate restructuring the healthcare giant undertook in an attempt to settle in U.S. bankruptcy court...
U.S. Soccer to Pay $24 Million to End Women’s Equal-Pay Suit
Feb 22 2022 // U.S. Soccer has reached a $24 million agreement with the women’s national team to settle allegations that females were paid less than their male counterparts. The deal, announced Tuesday in a joint statement, would...
Purdue’s Sackler Owners Propose Up to $6 Billion Opioid Settlement
Feb 22 2022 // The Sackler family owners of Purdue Pharma LP have proposed a new and larger settlement worth up to $6 billion to resolve allegations that the OxyContin maker and its owners contributed to the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic,...
COVID Underscores Lack of Whistleblower Protections
Feb 22 2022 // Originally posted on Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Inside a partially completed Amazon warehouse here, workers last summer walked on conveyor belts four stories high without safety harnesses,...
3 in Louisiana’s Camp Minden Explosion Case Owe $140K to $34.8 Million Restitution
Feb 22 2022 // Three of the men who pleaded guilty in connection with what a prosecutor called the nation’s worst dumping of explosives still owe substantial restitution _ one for nearly all of the $34.8 million he was ordered to...
Bird Flu Found at Fourth Indiana Turkey Farm
Feb 22 2022 // Avian influenza has been detected in a fourth commercial poultry flock in southern Indiana, state officials said Feb. 19. Laboratory testing of a second commercial flock of turkeys in Greene County has come back as...
Allianz Fires 2 Asset Managers Who Ran Group of Collapsed Investment Funds
Feb 22 2022 // Allianz ALVG.DE has dismissed two asset managers who oversaw a group of investment funds that collapsed after racking up massive losses when the spread of coronavirus triggered wild market swings, according to regulatory...
How Autonomous Car Companies Are Outrunning U.S. Regulators And Lawmakers
Feb 21 2022 // Self-driving vehicle companies from Tesla Inc. to General Motors Co.’s Cruise are racing to start making money with their technology, outrunning efforts by regulators and Congress to write rules of the road for...
Healthy, Happy Employees
Feb 21 2022 // This issue reveals data from Insurance Journal’s annual Agency Salary Survey. While maintaining competitive compensation packages is a critical step in attracting and retaining the best talent, employers must not...
People & Places
Feb 21 2022 // National Great American Insurance Group has promoted Jason M. Cohen to senior vice president and Julie F. Kadnar to divisional group president within its Property & Casualty Group. In 2006, Cohen joined the company as...
Boeing, Reform Issues Await New U.S. Aviation Safety Chief
Feb 18 2022 // The next head of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will face challenges overseeing Boeing Co. and a series of reforms mandated by Congress in the wake of two fatal 737 MAX crashes. The job opened late...
Allianz Sets Aside $4.2B to Handle Probes, Lawsuits After Collapse of Investment Funds
Feb 18 2022 // German insurer and asset manager Allianz ALVG.DE on Thursday said it would set aside 3.7 billion euros ($4.20 billion) to deal with investigations and lawsuits resulting from the collapse of a multi-billion-euro set of...
U.S. Investigates 416,000 Tesla Vehicles Over Unexpected Braking
Feb 18 2022 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Thursday it is opening a formal investigation into 416,000 Tesla vehicles over reports of unexpected brake activation tied to its driver assistance system...
Climate Change Could Push Flood Losses in U.S. to $40B by 2050
Feb 17 2022 // Climate change could result in the financial toll of flooding rising by more than a quarter in the U.S. by 2050, according to new research. The research, led by the University of Bristol and published in Nature Climate...
New Strain of Bird Flu Related to 2015 Virus
Feb 17 2022 // Farms that raise turkeys and chickens for meat and eggs are on high alert and taking steps to increase biosecurity, fearing a repeat of a widespread bird flu outbreak in 2015 that killed 50 million birds across 15 states...
Many Faith Leaders, Denominations Wary of Religious Exemptions for Vaccine
Feb 17 2022 // By the thousands, Americans have been seeking religious exemptions in order to circumvent COVID-19 vaccine mandates, but generally they are doing so without the encouragement of major denominations and prominent religious...
Elon Musk, Tesla Attack SEC for ‘Unrelenting’ Harassment
Feb 17 2022 // Tesla Inc. TSLA.O and its Chief Executive Elon Musk on Thursday accused the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of harassing them with an “endless” and “unrelenting” investigation to...
FBI Calls Crypto ‘Only Game in Town’ as Ransomware Flourishes
Feb 17 2022 // Cryptocurrencies and deep-fake technology are sending chills throughout the U.S. government, with cyber crooks embracing digital innovations so rapidly that law enforcement can barely keep up, according to the Federal...
