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Tornado Victim’s Family Sues Amazon Over Illinois Warehouse Collapse

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 …

Top 10 Midwest Insurance Journal Stories of 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. …

‘Keep Delivering’: Amazon Tornado Tragedy Raises Emergency Safety Training Questions

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 …

Why OSHA Is Investigating Amazon Worker Deaths at Illinois Building Hit by Tornado

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 …

Crews Continue Searching for Missing After Tornadoes Ravage Communities

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 …