Fresno County authorities are offering $100,000 for information leading to an arrest in last month’s arson attack California’s biggest beef processor. Sheriff’s officials announced the reward Tuesday. The Jan. 8 fire destroyed 14 big-rig tractors and several trailers at Harris …
Court-ordered talks have yielded settlements in 41 lawsuits involving drug companies blamed for supplying an anesthetic to Las Vegas medical clinics where health officials say patients contracted incurable hepatitis C through unsafe injection practices including the reuse of large vials, …
A Northern California coroner is being sued by the parents of a man whose brain was given to an ambulance company for dissection. The New York couple’s 30-year-old son was killed in a 2008 car crash. The San Francisco Chronicle …
A man who was born with half a left arm is suing Starbucks for failing to hire him as a barista. Eli Pierre sued the company in San Diego, Calif. two weeks ago for unspecified damages. Pierre says that during …
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton announced that the state has received a $26 million grant to continue the design and development of a Minnesota-made health insurance exchange. An exchange is a marketplace where Minnesota consumers and employers can find, compare, choose, …
Americans love movies, and they showed it by purchasing 1.2 billion tickets worth about $10.2 billion at the box office last year. That, of course, means big business for companies that are willing to insure the risks behind these productions. …
A group of Chesapeake residents has filed a $2 billion lawsuit against the owners of Battlefield Golf Club at Centreville and Dominion Virginia Power, claiming that the toxic fly ash on which the course was built contaminated the area’s well …
TGA Insurance Managers Inc., a subsidiary of Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc., has hired Michael Gallien as product manager for its oil and gas program. Prior to joining TGA, Gallien worked at Chartis from 2009 to 2011 as an energy …
Willis North America, a unit of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, appointed Sean McGroarty as New York-based national surety leader of Willis North America construction practice. Previously, McGroarty served as senior vice president and head of international surety with …
Just days after the 200th anniversary of a series of massive earthquakes in southeast Missouri, residents woke up on Feb. 21 to a rumbling reminder that they live in one of the continent’s most active seismic areas. The U.S. Geological …
