Trial Begins for Limousine Firm Operator Over New York Crash That Killed 20 in 2018 May 3, 2023 By Maysoon Khan and Michael Hill Nearly five years after a stretch limousine packed with birthday revelers careened down a hill and off a road in...
New Jersey Man Pleads Not Guilty to Multistate Car Theft and Resale Scheme May 3, 2023 A former Bergen County, New Jersey man has been charged with running a large, multistate car theft and fraud ring....
New Jersey Appeals Court Affirms War Exclusion Does Not Apply to Cyber Attack May 2, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson The appellate division of New Jersey Superior Court has upheld a state trial court opinion that the war exclusion in...
New York City Transit Halts Service Alerts on Twitter After Suspension May 2, 2023 By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Shortly after midnight last Thursday, several New York City subway trains slowed to a crawl as emergency crews tended to...
Court Upholds Denial of Widow’s COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Death Claim May 2, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson The widow of a man who died from COVID-19 has been denied workers’ compensation benefits because she failed to prove...
Virginia Workers’ Compensation Review Panel Clarifies COVID-19 Presumption May 2, 2023 Virginia’s statutory presumption that a COVID-19 disability of a first responder is work-related, which went into effect July 1, 2020,...
Virginia Beach Tornado Causes $15M in Residential Damage; No Reports of Injuries May 1, 2023 The Virginia Beach community in southeastern Virginia was hit by a tornado on Sunday, April 30, just minutes before 6:00...
OSHA Says Amazon Failed to Provide Injured Workers With Adequate Medical Care May 1, 2023 The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reports it has found that giant online retailer Amazon failed to provide adequate...
Maine Presses Railroad to Fix Roads, Culverts After Derailment May 1, 2023 Maine environmental regulators have asked a railroad cleaning up a freight train derailment site to repair forest management roads and...
Court Reinstates Criminal Charges Against Veterans’ Home Officials Over COVID Policies May 1, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson Massachusetts’ highest court overruled a lower court judge Thursday and reinstated criminal neglect charges against two top former officials at...