A Nashville judge has found a state law that limits the amount of workers’ compensation benefits laborers living in the U.S. illegally can receive is unconstitutional. The ruling stems from the case of a Guatemalan man, Carlos Martinez, whose left …
Acquisition activity for the first quarter of 2015 reached 90 deals, a record for the first three months of the year. We saw the same number of transactions announced during the fourth quarter of 2014, typically the most active quarter …
An appeals court has ruled that Missouri can’t limit health insurance navigators’ ability to help people obtain insurance under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law. The 8th Circuit Court in St. Louis blocked parts of a Missouri law that limit the …
Attorneys representing victims of asbestos exposure say a bill Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law in April will limit victims’ ability to recover losses. Ducey said he signed the measure to increase transparency and fairness in asbestos litigation. Ducey …
High on the list of Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s legislative priorities is reducing the amount employers pay for workers’ compensation insurance. Illinois currently has some of the highest workers’ comp costs in the nation. Rauner, a Republican, says one reason …
Repeated natural-gas accidents – including a 2010 pipeline explosion that killed eight people – suggest that California’s largest power utility could be too big to operate safely, the state’s top utility regulator says. California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Picker …
An insurance company is suing the owners of a $4 million mansion that burned to the ground in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio, last year. Chubb National Insurance Co. recently filed a lawsuit in federal court in Cincinnati in response to one …
Between 2010 and 2013, there were more than 900 data breaches of protected health information affecting at least 500 individuals, with most of them resulting from overt criminal activity, according to a study in the April 14 issue of the …
The Chubb Corporation announced on April 7 that it estimates the impact of losses from catastrophes for the first quarter of 2015 to be approximately $250 million before tax ($0.69 per share after tax). The Warren, New Jersey-headquartered Chubb said …
The Atlantic hurricane season in 2015 will see fewer than the average number of storms, according to Colorado State University researchers. Philip Klotzbach and William Gray said cooler ocean temperatures and the expectation that favorable atmospheric conditions will continue through …
