East News for November 2024
- Lawsuit Seeks OSHA Records on Deaths of 3 Amazon Workers
 - United Says FAA Staffing Shortages Causing Disruption at Newark Hub
 - Maine Joins States Suing Big Oil to Recover Costs of Climate Change ‘Deception’
 - World Insurance Acquires New England’s NorthStar Insurance
 - New York High Court Upholds Uber Arbitration Mandate For Previously-Filed Injury Case
 - Insurer Says Pollution Exclusion Sinks Coverage for Pool Chemical Injuries
 - Justice Department Finds Pattern of Misconduct by Trenton Police
 - Best Agency to Work For – East Gold Winner: Mackoul Risk Solutions
 - Safety Board Cites Oversight, Safety Failures in Bus-Truck Crash That Killed 6, Injured 9
 - Afore Adds New Jersey’s BCA Insurance as Mid-Atlantic Partner
 - New York Fines GEICO $9.75M, Travelers $1.5M Over Auto Insurance Cyber Breaches
 - Suit Claiming Racial, Income Bias in Rental Algorithm Settled for $2.2 Million
 - Trucking Firm Owner Sentenced Over Crash That Killed 7 Bikers
 - Gunmaker Sig Sauer Must Pay $11 Million Over Pistol That Fired Accidentally
 - New Jersey Bakery Fined $385K After OSHA Says Workers Still Exposed to Hazards
 - NFP Acquires AnchorGroup in Upstate New York
 - Clergy Abuse Victim Whose Parents Kicked Him Out Will Use Settlement to Help Others
 - Second Teen Charged in New Jersey Forest Fire; New York Hopes Rain Douses Blaze
 - Connecticut Approves 6% Workers’ Compensation Rate Decrease for 2025
 - Two Hospitalized After Small Plane Hits Another at Pennsylvania Airport
 - Biden Requests Funds to Rebuild Collapsed Baltimore Bridge
 - Blacks and Hispanics Pay More for Auto Insurance. Study Tries to Answer Why.
 - Virginia Seeks $4.4 Billion Additional Federal Aid for Hurricane Helene Recovery
 - New York Insurance Broker Caught in $38 Million Nursing Home Tax Fraud Scheme
 - Judge Weighs ‘Real Housewives of New York’ Cast Member’s Abuse Allegations
 - New York City Issues First Drought Warning in 22 Years
 - Massachusetts Police Charge Man With Intentionally Setting Brush Fires
 - Bankruptcy Judge Approves Rockville Centre Diocese $320M Sex Abuse Claims Fund
 - AM Best Assigns Ratings to New York Healthcare Workers’ Compensation Carrier
 - Philadelphia Eagles Seek to Extend Covid-19 Business Insurance Bid Into Overtime
 - Safety Board Reports on Hazardous Ammonia Accident at Virginia Food Processor
 - Insurer, Contractors Allege Staged Injury Claims Scheme Under New York Scaffold Law
 - Voluntary Evacuations Help Firefighters Contain New York State Forest Wildfire
 - Sotheby’s Pays $6 Million to Settle New York Sales Tax Evasion Probe
 - Malcolm X’s Daughters Sue CIA, FBI and NYPD Over Civil Rights Leader’s Assassination
 - What’s Behind New York Fires? Climate Change, Land Use and History
 - Emerald Bay Launches Co-Op and Condo Casualty Program with Vanderbilt Properties
 - Judge Sets April Trial Date for Palin’s Libel Claim Against New York Times
 - US Alleges Contractor Denied Workers Wages, Tried to Deport Any Who Complained
 - Jury Awards Baltimore $266 Million in Damages After Opioid Trial
 - World Insurance Acquires New Jersey’s United Counties Insurance
 - New York State Imposes Burn Ban; Brush Fire in Manhattan; Arrest in Medford Fire
 - Massachusetts Still Battling Brush Fires as Drought Conditions Persist
 - New Hampshire High Court Invalidates Geico Underinsured Claim Provision
 - Amtrak Service Disrupted After Fire Near Tracks in New York City
 - Police Cruiser Strikes and Kills Bicyclist Pulling Trailer in Vermont
 - Risk Strategies Acquires Felsen Insurance of New Jersey
 - New England Grocers Stop & Shop, Hannaford Coping With Cyber Attack
 - World Insurance Adds Skylands Insurance Group of New Jersey
 - Jury Finds Defense Contractor Liable in Torture at Abu Ghraib Prison
 - Jilted Fiancée Must Return $70,000 Ring as Court Ends At-Fault Inquiry
 - Sarah Palin, NY Times Have Explored Settlement, as Judge Sets Defamation Retrial
 - New Hampshire Landscaper to Pay Employees $310K in Wages, Damages
 - Fire Crews on Both US Coasts Battle Wildfires; 1 Death in New York-New Jersey Fire
 - NYC Man Charged With Insurance Fraud in Staged Car Crash Captured By Dashcam
 - Abiomed to Pay $57K to Resolve Alleged Gender-Based Promotion Discrimination
 - Judge Says NY Can’t Use ‘Unconstitutional’ Law to Block Migrant Buses From Texas
 - Fires Flare in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Amid US East Drought
 - 15 Homes Evacuated as Crews Battle Another Wildfire in New Jersey
 - People Moves: Vantage Insurance Partners Names Butcher CEO
 - Pennsylvania Home Health Care Agency to Pay $810K in Back Wages, Damages
 - Massachusetts Voters Allow Uber, Lyft Drivers to Unionize
 - Time Dwindling for Flood-Affected Connecticuters to Apply for Assistance
 - Pennsylvania Prohibits Fires on State Lands as Dry Conditions Persist
 - Navarro Wins Delaware Insurance Commissioner Reelection
 - NY Governor: $20 Million Available in Home Resiliency Grants, Loans
 - Massachusetts Governor Urges Safety Amid ‘Unprecedented’ Fire Season
 - Hilb Group Secures $2 Billion Round of Financing
 - DOL Seeks Reinstatement, Back Wages From Pennsylvania Manufacturer
 - DOL Recovers $877K in Wages, Benefits for Employees Underpaid By NY Contractors
 - Judge Delays Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Karen Read Until After Criminal Trial
 - Uber Proposes Cutting NYC Driver Minimum Pay on Lower Gas Prices
 - 60,000 Wawa-Branded Tumblers Recalled Because Their Metal Straws Can Cut Customers
 - US Shippers Avoid East Coast Ports on Risk of Second Strike
 - Maryland Fears Mobile Home Values Will Shrink as Insurance Disappears
 - PepsiCo Beats New York State’s ‘Predatory’ Lawsuit Over Plastics Pollution
 - Retrial Begins in Civil Suit Against Contractor Accused in Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal
 - Delaware Voters to Elect Insurance Commissioner
 - Penn Nursing Awarded $3.2 Million Grant to Improve Firearm Storage
 - Jaywalking Is Now Legal in New York City. It’s Still Risky.
 - Court Upholds Firing of Philadelphia Cops Over Offensive Facebook Posts
 
		East News Archives