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California City Paying $11M to Settle Fatal Crosswalk Crash
Sacramento has paid $11 million to settle a lawsuit after a car hit a boy and killed his grandmother in 2018, one of the city’s largest such payouts. QuiChang Zhu, 72, and her grandson Jian Hao Kuang, 6, were using …
POSTED OCTOBER 15, 2021 7:52 PM |
Texas Bill Would Make Firms Requiring COVID Vaccine Vulnerable To Lawsuits
As Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republican Texas leaders wage a war against vaccination mandates meant to curb COVID-19, a state Senate committee on Oct. 14 advanced legislation that would make any entity, including hospitals, vulnerable to discrimination lawsuits if …
POSTED OCTOBER 15, 2021 4:48 PM |
People Moves: Risk, Rushmore and Willis Towers
Risk Strategies Names Meder to Claims Advocacy Role Risk Strategies, a national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, announced that John Meder, of Raleigh, North Carolina, will be the new head of risk consulting and claims advocacy. Meder has more …
POSTED OCTOBER 15, 2021 4:47 PM |
Texas Contractor Fined $212K in Fatal Crane Collapse
Federal workplace safety officials say a Lufkin, Texas, contractor’s failure to assemble a crane boom properly caused the crane to collapse onto a passing vehicle on Interstate 10 near Beaumont, killing the two occupants in April 2021. OSHA cited Hemphill …
POSTED OCTOBER 15, 2021 4:39 PM |
Former Northeast Missouri Town Clerk Sentenced for $315K Embezzlement
The former town clerk of a small rural community in northeast Missouri was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay back $315,000 to the town. Tracey Ray, 48, pleaded guilty in June to wire fraud …
POSTED OCTOBER 15, 2021 4:25 PM |
North Dakota Hit with Tornados, Record Rainfall, Blanket of Snow
North Dakota residents experienced a range of weather this week, with rare October tornadoes in the southeastern part of the state, an early season snowstorm in the west and record rainfall in Bismarck. Preliminary reports indicate two tornadoes touched down …
POSTED OCTOBER 15, 2021 4:19 PM |
As Louisiana Port Rebuilds After Hurricane Ida, Loss of Wetlands Seen as Threat
On Louisiana’s south coast, in a key port servicing the U.S. offshore oil industry, a huge shipyard sits idle and in tatters. Where parts of the nine-bay terminal’s roof once hung, only a tangle of twisted metal beams is now …
POSTED OCTOBER 15, 2021 4:12 PM |
Murdaugh Charged With Taking Dead Housekeeper’s Life Insurance Settlement
Prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, already accused of swindling money from his law firm and for faking his own murder, has now been charged with stealing insurance settlements meant for the sons of his late housekeeper. Murdaugh was arrested …
POSTED OCTOBER 15, 2021 3:57 PM |
RIMS CEO Roth to Retire in 2022
After a 36-year career advancing the risk management profession, RIMS CEO Mary Roth has announced she plans to retire following the RIMS 2022 Annual Conference & Exhibition that is scheduled for next April. She has been chief executive officer of …
POSTED OCTOBER 15, 2021 3:54 PM |
Judge Dismisses Air Ambulance Attempt to Block Florida Reimbursement Law
Florida officials are applauding a federal court’s decision to dismiss an air ambulance company’s challenge to a 2020 law that limits insurance reimbursements for pricey helicopter and fixed-wing medical transports. “The successful dismissal of this lawsuit will ensure consumers are …
POSTED OCTOBER 15, 2021 3:37 PM |
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