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Oklahoma Printing Business Ordered to Pay $47K After Employee Was Called an Ape

Worldwide Printing and Distribution, Inc., doing business as ResourceOne, a Tulsa, Oklahoma commercial printing, direct mailing and direct marketing company, will pay $47,500 and furnish other relief to resolve a harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S....

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

Downward Spiral: Florida Insurance Agent Charged with Embezzlement After Lawsuits

Florida authorities have arrested a well-known southwest Florida insurance agent, charging him with larceny and embezzlement of premiums. Reid McDaniel, 33, who was named the honorary mayor of North Fort Myers last year but who also was facing a negl...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

Michigan State Sued Over Adolf Hitler Quiz Question Displayed at Football Game

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State has been sued over the Adolf Hitler question that appeared on Spartan Stadium screens before a game last season, with the quiz’s creator saying the university didn’t have permission to use its pro...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

$7M Settlement Reached for Family of Man Fatally Shot by Ohio Sheriff’s Deputy

The family of Casey Goodson Jr., a Black man who was shot and killed by an Ohio sheriff’s deputy, will receive $7 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit over the December 2020 shooting. The Franklin County Board of …

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

Federal Board Calls for Stricter Safety Rules for Charter Flights and Air Tours

A federal safety agency is recommending that air tours and other commercial aircraft operators be required to have certificated dispatchers to help pilots plan their flights. The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that and other recomm...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

Judge Tells ‘Monopolist’ Google It Can’t Avoid ‘Paying to Make the World Right’

A U.S. judge on Wednesday said he was planning to issue an order forcing Alphabet’s Google to give Android users more ways to download apps, but would not micromanage the tech giant’s business, following a jury verdict last year for &#823...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

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 …

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

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 Coper...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

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...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

PCF Transportation Offers a Look at the FMCSA Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse

This post is part of a series sponsored by PCF Insurance Services. PCF Transportation Practice Leader, Tim Good, leads a discussion with Erika Wilson, Producer from Good’s Insurance, a PCF company, about the importance of the FMCSA Drug and Alc...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

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...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

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 accordin...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

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 &#...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

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 …

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

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...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

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 t...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

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 …

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

All-Star Hamby Sues WNBA, Aces Alleging Discrimination, Retaliation for Being Pregnant

All-Star Dearica Hamby sued the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and her former team in federal court Monday regarding her treatment from the Las Vegas Aces while pregnant. Hamby’s lawsuit alleged the Aces discriminated and...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

Trucking Firm Owner Pleads Guilty to Charges Related to Crash That Killed 7 Bikers

An owner of a now defunct trucking company agreed to plead guilty on Tuesday to federal charges related to a deadly crash in New Hampshire that killed seven motorcyclists. Dunyadar Gasanov, 39, pled guilty in Springfield, Massachusetts to three count...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

Auto Insurance Shopping Elevated As Loss Costs Potentially Moderate

As industrywide auto insurance loss costs appear to be moderating, consumers continue to shop policies at elevated rates, according to the latest quarterly Insurance Personal Lines and Perspectives report from TransUnion. The American consumer credit...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

Roofing Materials Supplier to Oregon Jobsite Fined $92K for Repeated Fall Hazard Exposure

The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division fined a building materials supplier $92,226 for repeatedly failing to protect workers from potential fall hazards. The citation issued to ABC Supply Co. Inc. followed an inspection of a jobsite in Sa...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

Maine Regulators Reject Letting Utility Report Suspect Marijuana Growers to Police

Maine utility regulators unanimously rejected on Tuesday an electric utility’s proposal to proactively report high consumption that signals a marijuana growing operation to law enforcement officials in an attempt to aid police crackdown on illi...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

Construction Defects Are Not Covered Property Damage in Commercial Liability Policy

A home builder is not covered under the property damage coverage in its commercial liability policy for construction defects for which it was responsible. A three-judge panel of the Massachusetts Appeals Court has held for the first time that “...

Posted: Aug 16, 2024

Best Agencies to Work For: Submit Now.

Is your agency a Best Place to Work? Then it’s time to nominate your agency for Insurance Journal’s “Best Agency to Work For” award. To nominate your agency, you must be a current employee of the agency you are nominating. &#8...

Posted: Aug 15, 2024

Chicago Contractor Faces $268K Penalty for Exposing Workers to Deadly Fall Hazards

A federal workplace safety investigation has found that a metro-Chicago carpentry contractor with a long history of exposing employees to potentially deadly hazards again ignored regulations to protect workers from falls. For the seventh time since 2...

Posted: Aug 15, 2024