January 19, 2022
The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the central Illinois Amazon facility where he worked filed a wrongful deathlawsuitMonday in Madison County. The action on behalf of Austin McEwen, 26, claims that Amazon …
December 30, 2021
News of an Ohio jury’s conclusion that major pharmacy chains helped fuel the opioid crisis and a 6th Circuit’s reversal of a finding that COVID orders caused direct physical loss topped the headlines of Insurance Journal’s Midwest region in 2021. …
December 17, 2021
The messages between an Amazon.com Inc. delivery driver and her boss began about 80 minutes before a tornado struck one of the company’s warehouses in Edwardsville, Illinois, on Dec. 10, killing six workers. The dramatic exchange cast in sharp relief …
December 14, 2021
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — The U.S. workplace safety watchdog is investigating the circumstances around the collapse during Friday night’s storm of an Amazon.com Inc building in Illinois in which six workers died, an official at the U.S. Department of Labor said …
December 13, 2021
Rescuers combed through fields of wreckage after a tornado outbreak roared across the middle of the U.S., leaving dozens dead and communities in despair. A twister carved a track that could rival the longest on record as the stormfront smashed …