Supreme Court Casts Doubt on $8.5 Million Google Privacy Settlement March 21, 2019 By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday put in jeopardy an $8.5 million settlement Google made with users to resolve a...
Conservation, CarFax-Like Disclosure, Means-Test in Mix of Flood Insurance Reforms March 21, 2019 By Andrew G. Simpson The federal flood insurance program has a knack for inspiring ideas from reformers across the political spectrum on how to...
Burning Down a House to Show How to Build for Wildfire Defense March 20, 2019 By Don Jergler After only a year into his job as CEO and president of the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety,...
Assaults Are Among Most Common Cause of Workplace Injuries for Women March 20, 2019 Women suffer 70 percent of all nonfatal assault-related injuries involving days away from work and are disproportionately impacted by other...
Facing Bias Claims, Facebook Will Revamp Its Platform for Housing, Jobs, Credit Ads March 20, 2019 By Katie Paul Facebook Inc has agreed to change its paid advertising platform as part of a wide-ranging settlement to prevent discriminatory and...
Another Jury Finds Roundup Weed Killer Causes Cancer in First Phase of Trial March 20, 2019 By Jim Christie and Tina Bellon A U.S. jury on Tuesday found Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused cancer, a blow to the company eight...
Alliant to Offer AmWINS Program for Waste Operators, Haulers March 20, 2019 AmWINS Group, Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, has partnered with Alliant Insurance Services to service...
Why Drivers, Like Pilots, Should Be Trained to Use Autonomous Features March 20, 2019 Should drivers using vehicles with autonomous features be trained on those features before they get behind the wheel? A new...
Regulators Wonder If One Farm’s Tainted Milk Is Isolated Case or Broader Problem March 20, 2019 By Richard Valdmanis and Joshua Schneyer For Maine dairy farmer Fred Stone, the discovery in 2016 that his cows were producing tainted milk has since brought...
U.S. Safety Agency Weighs Bids for Putting Automated Vehicles on Roads March 20, 2019 The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it was seeking public comment on General Motors’ 15-month-old petition seeking...