Posts by Hometown Insurance
Wildfires Are Growing Under Climate Change, and Their Smoke Threatens Farmworkers, Study Says
As wildfires scorched swaths of land in the wine country of Sonoma County in 2020, sending ash flying and choking the air with smoke, Maria Salinas harvested grapes. Her saliva turned black from inhaling the toxins, until one day she …
Read More Wildfire Near Athens Burns Area Nearly Twice the Size of Manhattan
A European Union satellite mapping agency says 104 square kilometers (40 square miles) of land was burned northeast of Athens this week during a deadly wildfire that gutted scores of homes and prompted multiple countries to send assistance. The Copernicus …
Read More The Shaky Ground Below Istanbul Is Getting People Worried
When Turkish lender Denizbank paid more than $350 million for the building that houses its headquarters in April, the purchase cemented the bank’s place in Istanbul’s most expensive commercial district. Yet, almost as soon as the ink had dried on …
Read More Toxic Waste Bound for Thailand on Maersk, MSC Cargo Vessels to Return to Europe
Shipping containers bound for Thailand allegedly filled with tons of hazardous industrial waste from Albania are now slated to return to Europe, after environmental groups sounded the alarm they were being illegally exported to Southeast Asia. An A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S …
Read More Ernesto Becomes Category 2 Hurricane as It Heads to Bermuda
Ernesto strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane as it plowed northward toward Bermuda, threatening to drench the British territory with heavy rain and unleash flash floods. The storm was 410 miles (660 kilometers) south-southwest of Bermuda according to an advisory …
Read More Why Is Mpox an Emergency Again, and How Worried Should I Be?
The World Health Organization has declared that an outbreak of mpox, a viral infection that spreads through close contact, represents a global health emergency for the second time in two years. Here’s what that means. WHAT IS A GLOBAL HEALTH …
Read More Mutating Mpox Virus Poses Challenges to Containment Efforts
Changes in the mpox virus are just the latest challenge facing disease trackers trying to contain an outbreak of the virus that’s become a global health emergency. The surge of cases is centered in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a …
Read More Client Mix-up Leads to Lawsuits, Bar Complaint Against Mississippi Comp Lawyer
What’s in a name? Thousands of dollars, a lost job, denied insurance coverage and the possibility of a suspended law license for a Mississippi workers’ compensation attorney, apparently. It all has to do with injured workers – both named Dorothy …
Read More Second US Judge Blocks FTC Ban on Worker ‘Noncompete’ Agreements
A federal judge in Florida has temporarily blocked a U.S. Federal Trade Commission rule that would ban agreements commonly signed by workers not to join their employers’ rivals or launch competing businesses, becoming the second judge to rule that the …
Read More Chevron to Pay $550 Million Settlement to Richmond, California
Chevron Corp. is to pay Richmond City Council $550 million over 10 years, the city said in a statement, in a settlement that saw it drop a proposed ballot on a new tax on the oil major’s Richmond refinery. Richmond …
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