Insurance
Questions Raised about FIGA Board Changes, Now With No Auto Insurer Reps
In May, Florida’s chief financial officer sent out a notice that he had appointed new members to the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association’s board of directors. Just a week later, though, one of those appointees, a State Farm employee, was replaced. …
Read More Judge Orders Retrial of Civil Case Against Contractor Accused of Abuse at Abu Ghraib
A judge on Friday ordered a retrial over allegations that a Virginia-based military contractor contributed to the abuse and torture of detainees at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago. A civil trial earlier this year ended with a …
Read More Vermont Governor Vetoes Data Privacy Bill As Too Hostile to Business, Nonprofits
Vermont’s governor has vetoed a broad data privacy bill that would have been one of the strongest in the country to crack down on companies’ use of online personal data by letting consumers file civil lawsuits against companies that break …
Read More Oregon Contractor Fined for Repeatedly Exposing Workers to Fall Hazards
The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division fined a Grants Pass roofing company $86,149 for workplace safety violations, including repeatedly failing to safeguard workers from fall hazards that could seriously injure or kill them. The division cited GB Roofing LLC …
Read More People Moves: Krause Group Names Westervelt Vice President of Sales
Krause Group, headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, named Holly Westervelt to the newly created role of vice president of sales, a part of the leadership team for Krause Group’s expanding agency division, The Krause Agency. Westervelt joins Krause Group with …
Read More Oklahoma Supreme Court Dismisses Reparations Lawsuit of Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dampening the hope of advocates for racial justice that the city would make financial amends for one of the …
Read More Louisiana High Court Reopens Window for Adult Victims of Childhood Sex Abuse to Sue
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officially reversing a controversial March ruling, Louisiana’s highest court Wednesday gave childhood victims of sexual abuse a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits. The state Supreme Court’s 5-2 ruling Wednesday upholds a so-called look-back law that …
Read More For Shrinking Mississippi River Towns, Frequent Floods Worsen Fortunes
WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) — Devastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on communities that once thrived along the banks of America’s most storied river. Flooding has pushed people out of their homes …
Read More Judge Blasts Liberty Mutual in Declaring He Will Not Disqualify Because He’s an Insured
A federal judge in New Jersey, in a blistering opinion, has refused to disqualify himself from a case involving his insurer, Liberty Mutual, and accused the insurer of seeking his recusal and attacking his integrity because it did not like …
Read More Apple Accused in Lawsuit of Underpaying Female Workers in California
Apple on Thursday was hit with a proposed class action accusing the tech giant of paying more than 12,000 female employees in California less than men with comparable jobs. The lawsuit filed in state court in San Francisco by two …
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