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MINNEAPOLIS – North Memorial Health, a health care provider that operates two hospitals and 26 specialty and primary care clinics, urgent and emergency care facilities and medical transportation services throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area, will pay $180,000 and provide …

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider what employers must do to accommodate religious employees, among eight new cases it added. The cases are expected to be argued in April. In one involving a former postal employee, the justices …

Twitter Inc has secured a ruling allowing the social media company to force several laid-off workers suing over their termination to pursue their claims via individual arbitration than a class-action lawsuit. U.S. District Judge James Donato on Friday ruled that …

Physician dispensing of medications has long been a flash point in workers’ compensation insurance, with at least 22 states regulating or restricting the practice. Florida is no exception to the controversy, and stakeholders on both sides of the issue joined …

Banning commission-based sales of financial products from banks and insurers would be a “serious setback” to the European Union’s capital market and limit choice for consumers, Germany’s finance minister Christian Lindner has said. EU financial services chief Mairead McGuinness set …

Westland Insurance announced that it has acquired the Edmonton brokerage RiskTech Insurance Services as of January 1. Risk Tech was a member of Excel Insurance Group. It specializes in serving large and mid-market commercial risks and complements Westland’s existing commercial …

KATHMANDU, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Searchers found the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder on Monday from a passenger flight that crashed, killing at least 70 people in Nepal’s worst plane accident for 30 years, officials said. The data …

If Stephany Connelly had not been working, she may have been entitled to collect up to $350,000 in uninsured motorist benefits because of the injuries she suffered from a 2015 car crash. But she was working at the time of …

Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of Grace & Porta Benefits, Inc. (Grace & Porta Benefits). Located in Brighton, Michigan, Grace & Porta Benefits is an independent agency specializing in employee benefits consultation. Jon Porta, President/CEO, Travis Porta, …

Sally Nava Kanarek, 76, of Huntington Beach, was arrested this week on multiple felony counts of financial elder abuse, grand theft of an elder, and forgery after a California Department of Insurance investigation found she allegedly defrauded an elderly client …