North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has signed into law a bill that will allow cities to hire civilian traffic investigators to handle some traffic accidents, freeing up police officers for other duties. House Bill 140, which took effect Friday after …

A firefighter must be shown to have worked 20 or more hours a week to be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits under state law, the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled in reversing an appeals court and state workers’ compensation officials. …

Tokio Marine HCC International (TMHCCI) has restructured its IT and Operations teams as it moves to the next stage of its growth strategy. Since 2017, TMHCCI said it has grown significantly and to service and sustain this level of growth …

Canada’s explosive wildfire season has already pumped millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Some of that carbon is coming from vegetation burned at a carbon offset project, highlighting the fragility of a tool the world is relying …

Companies will face more pressure to disclose how climate change affects their business under a new set of G20-backed global rules aimed at helping regulators crack down on greenwashing. The norms published on Monday have been written by the International …

In a decision scrutinizing how colleges investigate sexual assault allegations, Connecticut’s highest court ruled Friday that a former Yale student is not immune from a defamation lawsuit by a fellow student who was exonerated in criminal court after she accused …

SCOR’s Board of Directors, which met on June 25, 2023, has unanimously decided to appoint Fabrice Brégier as non-executive chairman, with immediate effect. This decision was made on the unanimous recommendation of the Nomination Committee, at the conclusion of a …

A Bermuda appeals court on Friday largely dismissed Credit Suisse’s appeal in an ongoing case involving the Swiss bank’s local life insurance arm and Georgia’s former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. “The time has come for Credit Suisse to take responsibility …

At the same time as traffic fatalities increased and motorists’ driving habits deteriorated, law enforcement officers were issuing fewer citations for traffic violations, data analytics company TransUnion says in a new report. TransUnion gathers traffic violation data from the courts …

Mallinckrodt Plc has for the second time reached an agreement to further delay a $200 million opioid settlement payment that was due earlier this month as the company continues to evaluate its options for addressing its debt load. The drugmaker …

Cyberattacks on US hospitals are on the rise, adding a layer of financial pressure onto an industry still struggling to recover from the pandemic. Health facilities have been hit with 226 digital incursions affecting 36 million people this year, on …

A federal judge on Thursday imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm in an unprecedented instance in which ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an aviation injury claim. Judge P. Kevin Castel …