Why Science Can’t Prove Roundup Weed Killer Causes Cancer: Viewpoint March 22, 2019 By Faye Flam Scientists can’t, for the most part, prove that a given product caused a particular person to get cancer – not...
9 Insurance Agency Start-Ups: Why and How They Set Out on Their Own March 22, 2019 By Amy O'Connor, Elizabeth Blosfield and Stephanie K. Jones What motivates people to take a risk in an industry dedicated to managing risk? New independent agencies are born of...
AmWINS Announces New Hires, Promotions Across Country March 21, 2019 Wholesale specialty insurance broker AmWINS Group Inc. has announced new hires and promotions to its Specialty Logistics and AmWINS Access...
IPO-Bound Lyft Tells Investors Lowering Insurance Costs Is Priority March 21, 2019 By Ross Kerber Lyft Inc. executives are focused on cutting insurance costs and will phase in self-driving vehicles on simple routes first, they...
Union Claims Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Employee March 21, 2019 By Josh Eidelson A union organizing Amazon.com Inc. employees in New York has filed a complaint accusing the company of illegally firing one...
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...