Eight Florida men have been charged with contracting without a license and failing to obtain workers’ compensation insurance, after a sting operation led by state and local authorities. The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Department of Financial Services …

There’s not much in Greene County, a place that stands out even in impoverished west Alabama for its neediness. So the April tornado that settled down upon a housing community full of seniors and low-income families felt like a particularly …

Hub International Ltd. named Andy Prill to Hub’s executive management team as regional president of the newly created Mountain Northwest region. Prill will be responsible for the direction, leadership and growth of Hub Northwest and Hub Mountain covering existing operations …

Rent-A-Center, one of the nation’s largest rent-to-own companies, will pay $15.5 million to settle California’s allegations that it misled and overcharged tens of thousands of customers, Attorney General Rob Bonta said Tuesday. An investigation of the company’s “kiosk” business inside …

Pennsylvania’s workers’ compensation law authorizes modifications to a home to accommodate an injured employees’ needs; however does it extend coverage to paying any costs for the purchase of a new home? No, that would be unreasonable, the Commonwealth Court of …

The McKinney Fire in Northern California was still out of control on Wednesday despite cloudy, cooler conditions on Tuesday night. The fire has burned nearly 90 square miles since it started on Friday in an unpopulated area in Klamath National …

Louisiana has completed one of its biggest coastal restoration projects yet, and is at work on even bigger ones. The dredge used to suck up sediment from the Gulf of Mexico to add 1,000 acres (405 hectares) of habitat to …

Federal safety investigators found workers at General Aluminum Mfg. Co.’s Wapakoneta site exposed to machine hazards, just 36 days after they found similar violations at the aluminum vehicle parts manufacturer’s facility in Conneaut, Ohio. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational …

An Iowa-based youth basketball league agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by former players whose coach secretly recorded them undressing or obtained nude photos of them and is now serving a lengthy prison sentence for sexual exploitation of minors. …

Earlier this week after over a year in development, insurance agency America First Insurance Group was launched, claiming it is the country’s first conservative insurance group. “We felt the conservative customer was slowly being kicked to the side,” said Tony …

A wildfire that has forced evacuations and destroyed some homes in the Nebraska Panhandle grew to about 25000 square miles (64749.77 square kilometers) Monday, but firefighters were managing to limit the spread of the fire. The blaze south of Gering, …

Policyholders with three insurance companies once owned by Greg Lindberg and who have as much as $50,000 in the bank may now qualify for financial hardship payments, the North Carolina insurance commissioner announced Wednesday. “This will make policy funds more …