Last year, there were 5,283 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States, a 3.7% decrease from 5,486 in 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The fatal work injury rate was 3.5 fatalities per 100,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) …
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SageSure closed the acquisition of GeoVera Advantage Insurance Services LLC in Fairfield, California. The entity will now function as a newly formed managing general agent and includes the residential earthquake risk underwriting franchise. As part of the transaction, SageSure has …
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The Dartmouth men’s basketball team on Tuesday dropped its attempt to unionize, abruptly ending a push to become the first college athletes to bargain for a contract in order to avoid a potentially damaging precedent from a National Labor Relations …
Dartmouth Athletes End Unionization Bid Citing Labor Panel Shift to Republicans Read More »
Fairfield CT, January 03, 2025 — Globex International Group, with US offices in New Jersey and Connecticut, is pleased to announce the following Globex Underwriting Services (GUS) staff promotions and new additions to its global staff. Effective May 2024, the …
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A Pennsylvania battery firm has been found responsible for paying $22.25 million in backpay to workers to cover the actual time they spent changing and showering for their jobs working with hazardous materials. Their employer, East Penn Manufacturing, had argued …
Employer Owes Pay for Actual Time Changing, Showering— Not Its ‘Reasonable’ Estimate Read More »
Verisk said on Thursday it will be the first modeler to request a review of its wildfire catastrophe model under a reform pushed by California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara. The reform allows catastrophe models to be used by insurance carriers …
Verisk to Get First Cat Model Under Review for Insurance Ratemaking in California Read More »
The U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget is a peculiar entity. The committee was established in 1974 in response to President Richard Nixon “impounding” money allocated by Congress to prevent spending on programs he did not favor. This led to …
New Direction for U.S. Senate Budget Committee Read More »
Waves of intense cold will send temperatures plunging as much as 20F (11C) below normal across the central and eastern U.S. this month, triggering ice storms that could down power lines and snarl travel from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic. …
Deep Freeze Will Send Some US Temperatures Plunging Read More »
A U.S. government fund to compensate people swindled by Bernard Madoff announced its tenth and final distribution on Monday, saying it will have paid out $4.3 billion to 40,930 of the late Ponzi schemer’s victims. Richard Breeden, the former U.S. …
Bernard Madoff’s Victims Collect $4.3B as US Government Fund Completes Payouts Read More »
A gruesome attack on revelers celebrating New Year’s in New Orleans thrust US domestic security back into the spotlight just weeks before Donald Trump is sworn in as president. The tragedy, which killed at least 15 people and injured dozens …
New Orleans Attack, Cybertruck Blast Raise US Security Fears Read More »
