More States Could Settle Opioid Suits in Wake of West Virginia’s McKesson Deal May 6, 2019 By Jef Feeley McKesson Corp.’s settlement of an opioid lawsuit with West Virginia — the state with the highest U.S. rate of drug-overdose...
Insurance Agency Management System Tech Firm Veruna Raises $6 Million May 6, 2019 Veruna, a Massachusetts-based insurance technology developer of an agency management system built on the Salesforce platform, said it completed a...
FDA Says Risks Do Not Warrant Ban on Breast Implants at This Time May 6, 2019 By Matthew Perrone U.S. health authorities will allow a type of breast implant linked to a rare form of cancer to stay on...
Petroleum Industry Revises Standard for Reducing Workers’ Fatigue May 6, 2019 The American Petroleum Institute issued on Thursday a revised standard aimed at reducing fatigue among workers in the nation’s refineries...
Sniffing Out Particles, Singling Out Pigs: Food Industry Urged to Embrace Robots, AI May 6, 2019 By Andrew G. Simpson E.coli in beef. Metal shavings in bread crumbs. Contaminated water on vegetables. The food industry has its share of quality...
JLT Re’s Chandler Joins Reinsurance Broker BMS as U.S. Operations President May 6, 2019 Reinsurance broker BMS Group has named Pete Chandler as president of its U.S. reinsurance operations. Chandler joins from JLT Re,...
Congressional Budget Office Warns of ‘Potentially Disruptive’ Move to ‘Medicare for All’ May 3, 2019 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Alan Fram Congressional budget experts said this week that moving to a government-run health care system like “Medicare for All” could be...
Think Bold. Grow Your Human Capital: MarshBerry Commentary May 3, 2019 By Eric Hallinan Peter Drucker wrote in The Effective Executive, “An organization that just perpetuates today’s level of vision, excellence and accomplishments has...
How Drone Use Becomes More Challenging When Deploying Fleets May 3, 2019 Search and rescue crews are already using drones to locate missing hikers. Farmers are flying them over fields to survey...
Starbucks Recalls 260,000 Coffee Presses Due to Injury Risk May 3, 2019 Starbucks Corp. is recalling about 263,000 of its coffee presses, made in partnership with Bodum, after the world’s largest coffee...