February 3, 2021
The California-based multi-level marketing business LuLaRoe is paying $4.75 million to settle allegations from the Washington state Attorney General’s Office that it operated as a pyramid scheme. LuLaRoe sells leggings and other clothing to a network of independent retailers, who …
February 3, 2021
Montana House lawmakers voted this week to advance a bill that would protect businesses and health care providers from coronavirus-related lawsuits, a step the Republican governor said was necessary to remove a statewide mask mandate. Gov. Greg Gianforte endorsed the …
February 3, 2021
Google will pay $2.6 million to more than 5,500 employees and past job applicants to resolve allegations that the internet giant discriminated against female engineers and Asians in California and Washington state. The settlement announced Monday closes a 4-year-old case …
February 2, 2021
San Diego, Calif.-based Partners General Insurance Agency LLC has named Thomas Farrell president. Jas Chima will become CEO (formerly president and CEO) and John Davis will remain as executive vice president. Farrell joined PGIA in mid-2019. He has more than …
February 2, 2021
Oregon OSHA is proposing a permanent rule that largely maintains risk-reducing measures required by the current temporary emergency rule to help protect workers against COVID-19. It would replace the temporary rule, which expires on May 4. The proposed permanent rule …
February 2, 2021
Multiple crew members on a seafood factory trawler in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska have tested positive for COVID-19, joining a growing list of outbreaks in seafood processors and vessels, city officials said. The city of Unalaska said that factory …
February 2, 2021
Federal investigators said they’ll focus on the crash of a box truck that killed five bicyclists on a stretch of Nevada highway in December as they consider recommendations to prevent similar fatalities. The National Transportation Safety Board issued a brief …
February 2, 2021
CompWest Insurance has added Liz McNamara as a business development consultant in Southern California. McNamara most recently was a senior underwriter at Amtrust. She began her insurance career in 1987 as a multi-line underwriter and territory manager for American States …
February 1, 2021
A new Colorado law allowing individual police officers to be sued will soon get a big test. Four Black girls who were mistakenly detained by Colorado police at gunpoint over a suspected stolen car filed a civil lawsuit against police …
February 1, 2021
A lawsuit was filed against a Las Vegas-based tour bus company and one of its drivers after a crash last week that killed one person and critically injured three others. The bus with more than 40 people aboard rolled over …