The US Supreme Court made it easier for employees to sue over discriminatory job transfers, siding with a St. Louis police officer who says she was shifted to a different role against her will be...
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/17/323101.htm
The economic drivers of the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry are growing faster than the nation’s Gross Domestic Product and are expected to gain further momentum in the event of Feder...
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/17/323091.htm
When the Texas Panhandle went up in flames this winter, the news spread fast on Wall Street. An electric utility by the name of Xcel Energy Inc. was getting blamed for the massive blaze — a law...
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/17/323084.htm
The first quarter Small Business Index, which measures small business owner confidence, is 62.3—similar to last quarter’s score of 61.3—reflecting a stable business climate. More small busi...
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Hawaiian Electric stock hit a 40-year low in the wake of a local news report that a probe of the devastating Maui fires does not find fault with first responders. Shares fell as much as 18% to $8...
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UnitedHealth Group expects to take a hit of as much as $1.6 billion this year from disruptions caused by the February cyberattack at its Change Healthcare unit. Despite the disruptions, UnitedHea...
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The world’s largest seller of cybersecurity products has a problem with its own cybersecurity. In recent years, Microsoft Corp. has been hit with a series of embarrassing hacks that have expose...
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/17/323041.htm
A study by researchers from Harvard and Columbia universities and at the Federal Reserve has reopened the debate about the financial fortitude and the financial rating system for dozens of Florid...
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/17/323051.htm
Verita CSG Inc. named William Barry as chief claim manager and Chris Adolph head of property claims. In previous roles, Barry managed global teams of claim account managers and Adolph spearheaded...
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/17/323000.htm
The Justice Department may file an antitrust complaint as soon as next month aimed at forcing Live Nation Entertainment Inc. to spin off its Ticketmaster ticketing business, according to three pe...
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/16/323067.htm
Inappropriate comments by a superior to a social worker and between other employees at the state Department of Human Services did not justify a $790,000 jury award for sexual harassment, the Iowa...
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/16/323039.htm
An employer cannot use an ergonomics report, showing that a work injury is statistically unlikely, to deny a workers’ compensation claim, the South Carolina Supreme Court said in an opinion tha...
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/16/323049.htm
MGM Resorts International sued the Federal Trade Commission to stop an investigation into how it dealt with a cybersecurity attack last year. The company said the investigation deprives it of its...
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/16/323054.htm
A former chiropractor was sentenced to 54 years in state prison and ordered to pay more than $23 million in fines for his role in orchestrating a massive workers’ compensation fraud scheme tota...
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/16/323064.htm
The lawyers who negotiated a $600 million settlement with Norfolk Southern over that railroad’s disastrous 2023 derailment in Ohio want residents to talk with them before deciding the historic ...
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/16/323035.htm