‘Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Heat Nor Gloom of Night . . .’: Cancellation by Mail February 13, 2018 By Steven Plitt The Nebraska Supreme Court in Barnes v. American Standard Insurance Company of Wisconsin, 297 Neb. 331, 900 N.W.2d 22 (2017)...
OxyContin Maker Will Stop Promoting Opioids to Physicians February 13, 2018 By MARLEY JAY and MATT PERRONE The maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin said it will stop marketing opioid drugs to doctors, bowing to a key...
Uber to Pay $245M to Settle Waymo’s Allegations of Trade Secrets Theft February 12, 2018 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and TOM KRISHER Uber is paying $245 million to Google’s self-driving car spinoff to end a legal brawl that aired out allegations of...
False Alarms Highlight National Alert System Weaknesses February 12, 2018 By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Weather junkie John Grosso knew it was highly unlikely a monster wave was barreling toward the Connecticut coast. Still, when...
Study Finds Hundreds of Black Lung Cases in Appalachia February 12, 2018 A new research letter published in a medical journal details hundreds of cases of black lung disease in the Central...
Equifax Hack Breach Exposed More Data Than Consumers Knew February 12, 2018 By SARAH SKIDMORE SELL The Equifax data breach exposed more of consumers’ personal information than the company first disclosed last year, according to documents...
Amtrak’s No Fault Agreements With Other Railroads Means it Bears Crash Costs February 12, 2018 By JEFF HORWITZ Federal investigators are still looking at how CSX railway crews routed an Amtrak train into a parked freight train in...
Hawaii Considers Bill to Require Insurers to Cover Air Ambulance Rides February 12, 2018 A proposed law in the state Legislature would require insurance companies to cover air ambulance rides to the mainland for...
Staying on Top of Medicare Secondary Payor Provisions February 12, 2018 By Denise Johnson Developing a compliance program to adhere to Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) provisions is key to avoiding exposure to lawsuits and...
Drowsy Driving-Related Crashes Occur More Frequently Than Statistics Indicate February 9, 2018 The most in-depth drowsy driving research ever conducted in the U.S. using footage of everyday drivers found that the percentage...