The Infrastructure Crisis: As Business Losses Mount, New Demand for Utility Coverage? February 6, 2023 By William Rabb When aging water pumps in Jackson, Mississippi, were shut down by floodwaters last August, knocking out water service to most...
Not Time to Celebrate but Commercial Insurance Rates Are Stabilizing January 23, 2023 By Susanne Sclafane With last year’s 25% rate hikes for public directors and officers liability insurance dropping to 2.5%, and 150% hikes for...
Lack of Safeguards Led to Wisconsin Refinery Explosion January 23, 2023 Federal regulators have determined that a lack of safeguards during a maintenance shutdown led to a 2018 explosion at an...
Washington Contractor Fined $400K for Repeat Fall Protection Violations January 23, 2023 The owner of a Washington state framing company is facing nearly $400,000 in fines for allegedly allowing crew members to...
Google Paying Indiana $20M to Resolve Privacy Suit January 23, 2023 Google will pay Indiana $20 million to resolve the state’s lawsuit against the technology giant over allegedly deceptive location tracking...
Washington AG Sues Plastic Surgery Provider for Fake Reviews January 23, 2023 By Claire Rush Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a lawsuit against a plastic surgery provider in the...
Suit Alleges Agency Liable in Accidental Child Shooting January 23, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson The parents of a Maine three-year old boy who accidentally shot himself with a loaded pistol filed a negligence suit...
Cameraman Hurt on New Mexico Film Set Gets $66M in Lawsuit January 23, 2023 A Los Angeles cameraman who suffered a spinal cord injury while on a New Mexico movie set has been awarded...
New Massachusetts Law Aims to Thwart Catalytic Converter Thieves January 23, 2023 In one of his last official acts in office, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill designed to curb the...
Oklahoma Piping Inspection Company to Pay $250K Fine January 23, 2023 American Piping Inspection, Inc. (API), an Oklahoma-based testing and piping inspection services company, agreed to pay $250,000 and to provide...