Texas Plant Rocked by Explosions Was Declared High Priority Violator by EPA December 3, 2019 By Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune The Port Neches, Texas, chemical plant where two explosions and a fire prompted widespread mandatory evacuations on Nov. 27 has...
Kansas County to Pay $37.5K to Officer Bitten by Police Dog December 3, 2019 A Kansas county has agreed to pay $37,500 to a Wichita police officer who was bitten by a sheriff deputy’s...
Vape Crisis Prompts Calls for Greater Clarity in Cannabis Regulation December 3, 2019 By Elizabeth Blosfield Cannabis industry lawyers are calling for greater clarity around regulation of the cannabis industry. Panelists at the 2019 Professional Liability...
Reinsurers Pressure Life Insurers Over Vaping Health Risks December 3, 2019 By Carolyn Cohn, Suzanne Barlyn and Noor Zainab Hussain Global reinsurers are stepping up their warnings to life insurer clients about the potential risks of vaping, putting pressure on...
Some Changes to California’s FAIR Plan Could Go into Effect Early Next Year December 2, 2019 By Don Jergler Note: This has been updated with FAIR Plan comments below. Changes to the insurance plan offered by California’s property insurer...
Pre-Thanksgiving Tornadoes Strike Parts of Mississippi December 2, 2019 Residents in northeast Louisiana and central Mississippi were cutting up fallen pine trees and assessing damage Wednesday after tornadoes hit...
Last Day to Submit to Insurance Journal’s Charity Issue December 2, 2019 Insurance Journal Magazine’s Charity Issue highlights some of the many charitable tales in the insurance industry. Don’t miss your chance...
Cryptocurrency Fraud Losses Surge to $4.4 Billion: CipherTrace Report December 2, 2019 By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss Cryptocurrency theft has surged in 2019 compared with last year, with more money flowing through digital exchanges and criminals looking...
Feds Sue Arkansas Insurer Over Fired Employee Who Had A Baby December 2, 2019 The federal government is suing a Little Rock, Ark.-based insurance company over the firing of a worker who had just...
Iowa Court Upholds Woman’s $4.9M Verdict From Icy Sidewalk Fall December 2, 2019 The Iowa Court of Appeals has upheld a $4.9 million jury verdict awarded to a Texas woman after she fell...