Supreme Court Rules Railroad’s Payments to Injured Workers for Lost Wages Are Taxable March 4, 2019 By Andrew G. Simpson The Supreme Court has ruled that payments to injured employees for lost wages by a railway company are taxable under...
With Opioid Litigation Mounting, Purdue Pharma Exploring Bankruptcy: Reuters March 4, 2019 By Mike Spector and Jessica DiNapoli OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is exploring filing for bankruptcy to address potentially significant liabilities from thousands of lawsuits alleging...
Marsh Names AIG’s Bauer as Sharing Economy, Mobility Practice Leader March 4, 2019 Robert Bauer has joined insurance broker Marsh to lead its U.S. Sharing Economy & Mobility Practice. Bauer will focus on...
Groundwater Near Most Coal Plants Polluted by Coal Ash: Environmental Groups March 4, 2019 By Valerie Volcovici More than 90 percent of U.S. coal-fired power plants that are required to monitor groundwater near their coal ash dumps...
Insurance Agencies’ Profitability Fell But Organic Growth Continued in 2018: Reagan March 4, 2019 Independent insurance agencies just closed the books on a year in which profitability fell slightly but they continued to grow...
Lyft, Uber Shift Some Risk to Captive Insurers March 4, 2019 By Katherine Chiglinsky and Max Abelson Ride-sharing giants Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. seem to have found the same solution for dealing with the risks...
Pedestrian Fatalities Continue to Rise March 4, 2019 A new report projects that 6,227 pedestrian fatalities occurred in 2018, the highest number in nearly three decades. Pedestrians will...
2 Fatal Tesla Crashes in Florida Trigger Federal Safety Investigations March 4, 2019 By David Shepardson U.S. authorities are investigating a fatal Tesla Inc. Model S crash in Florida last Sunday that killed the driver and...
Democrats Propose Ban on Mandatory Arbitration in Employment, Consumer Contracts March 1, 2019 By Paresh Dave Six Google employees on Thursday joined U.S. lawmakers to support bills that would ban mandatory arbitration in employment and consumer...
The $900 Billion Auto Aftermarket: Where Total Losses Turn Into Big Gains March 1, 2019 By Michael Sasso Mike Rosser, a 41-year veteran of the salvage car business, remembers a day when auctions for junked cars drew 30...