Trump Administration Unveils Higher Threshold to Expand Overtime Pay March 8, 2019 By Daniel Wiessner The U.S. Department of Labor issued a long-awaited proposal on Thursday to extend mandatory overtime pay to a million more...
Texas Insurance Adjuster Sentenced for Stealing $100K from Employer March 7, 2019 A Spring, Texas, insurance adjuster has been sentenced for stealing nearly $100,000 from the insurance company where he worked, the...
California Track Cancels Racing After 21 Horses Die in 2 Months March 7, 2019 Santa Anita racetrack in California has canceled racing indefinitely to re-examine its dirt surface after the deaths of 21 horses...
Forest Management After Fires a Focus for California Agency March 7, 2019 By Sudhin Thanawala After successive years of devastating wildfires, California’s fire agency has announced a plan that would dramatically increase the removal of...
Walmart’s Stills Named to RIMS 2019 Risk Management Honor Roll March 7, 2019 David Stills, vice president, Global Risk Management at Arkansas-based Walmart Inc. has been named to the Risk Management Honor Roll...
Northwestern University’s Figora Named RIMS Risk Manager of the Year March 7, 2019 Luke Figora, senior associate vice president and chief risk and compliance officer at Illinois’ Northwestern University has been selected as...
Alabama Tornado Recovery Efforts Begin As Threat of More Storms Looms March 7, 2019 By Kim Chandler and Jay Reeves All those listed as missing have been found and searches ended with no additional bodies discovered among the shattered homes,...
Despite Improved Tornado Forecasting, Deaths Continue March 7, 2019 By Seth Borenstein Sometimes in forecasting tornadoes, you can get everything technically right, and yet it all goes horribly wrong. Three days before...
Update: At Least 20 Injured in Indiana School Bus Crash March 7, 2019 A school bus collided with a garbage truck in Indiana on Wednesday, seriously injuring one student and leaving 20 people...
Drug Companies Seek Delay in Oklahoma Opioid Trial March 7, 2019 Pharmaceutical companies have asked for a 100-day postponement of an Oklahoma trial accusing them of fraudulently marketing drugs that have...