Supreme Court Returns Racial Bias Lawsuit Against Comcast TV to Lower Court March 23, 2020 By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court’s ruling that had given the green light to comedian-turned-media...
Supply Chain Problems Move from China to U.S. and Other Nations March 23, 2020 By Lisa Baertlein, Jonathan Saul and Sonya Dowsett Freight carriers are struggling to deliver goods by land, sea or air as the coronavirus pandemic forces Western governments to...
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Says Coronavirus Lockdown to Last Until June March 23, 2020 By Andrea Shalal and Susan Heavey The lockdown affecting large segments of the American public to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus is likely...
Tesla, Drivers, Regulators All to Blame for Fatal Crash, Says Safety Board March 23, 2020 By Tom Krisher The National Transportation Safety Board says two drivers, Tesla and lax regulation of new partially automated driving systems are to...
Fitch Revises Global Reinsurance Sector Outlook to Negative; Rating Outlook Stable March 23, 2020 Fitch Ratings announced a dimmer “sector outlook” for global reinsurers—changing it to negative from stable, pointing to increased concerns over...
Spring Floods in U.S. Should Be Moderate Compared to Last Year: NOAA March 23, 2020 By Christina Larson Too often disasters come in threes. But the year of global pandemic and record wildfires in Australia will not also...
FEMA Tackles COVID-19 While Also Facing Past Disasters, Spring Flood Season March 23, 2020 By Leslie Kaufman and Brian K. Sullivan It wasn’t until Wednesday, five days after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Cruel Paradox: Beating Virus Means U.S. Recession March 20, 2020 By Paul Wiseman The coronavirus is dealing a death blow to the longest U.S. economic expansion on record, triggering layoffs and putting intense...
Pressure Builds on Insurers to Be Part of Coronavirus Business Solution March 20, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson While legislators in Washington and states try to fashion financial relief for businesses interrupted by the public health actions related...
Insurers Reject House Members’ Request to Cover Uninsured COVID Business Losses March 20, 2020 A bipartisan group of U.S. House members has asked insurers to retroactively recognize financial losses relating to COVID-19 under commercial...