International News Beach Hotels and Their Investors Welcome Insurance After the Storms September 24, 2019 By Patrick Clark Frenchman’s Reef, the largest resort on St. Thomas, was smashed by Hurricane Irma, which breached roofs, caved in walls and... Read More
Texas / South Central News Texas Suffers 5 Deaths, Widespread Damage from Tropical Cyclone Imelda September 24, 2019 The widespread damage brought to the Houston area by one of the wettest tropical cyclones in U.S. history came into... Read More
International News Insurers Join ‘Net Zero’ Climate Pledge at United Nations September 24, 2019 By Matthew Green Insurers and pension funds managing $2.3 trillion pledged on Monday to shift their portfolios away from carbon-heavy industries in the... Read More
For Forested Communities, It’s Fight or Flight in Face of Increasing Wildfires September 24, 2019 By Dustin Patar and Anton Delgado Unless it’s Sunday, Kelly Loew is steering her rusty red Jeep down the same mail route in Shingletown, as she... Read More
Songwriters and Record Companies Seek New Standard for Copyright Infringement Claims September 24, 2019 By Edvard Pettersson Willie Nelson has famously said a country song is “three chords and the truth.” It might not be so simple... Read More
FAA Chief Stresses Need for Better Plane Design and Piloting September 24, 2019 By Ryan Beene and Alan Levin The top U.S. aviation regulator briefed his counterparts from around the world on the grounded Boeing Co. 737 Max, reminding... Read More
West News Dive Boat Fire Investigators May See Lesson in Ghost Ship Tragedy Negligence Case September 24, 2019 By Brian Melley One was a ship in name only, an artist commune set up in an Oakland warehouse. The other was a... Read More
Boeing Fund to Pay 737 MAX Crash Victims $145K Each September 23, 2019 Boeing Co.’s $50 million financial assistance fund will pay the families of 346 people killed in two fatal 737 MAX... Read More
West News Bus with Chinese-Speaking Tourists Crashes in Utah; 4 Dead September 23, 2019 By Lindsay Whitehurst and Morgan Smith A tour bus crashed on a highway running through the red-rock landscape of southern Utah on Friday, killing four people... Read More
West News PG&E Attacks Rival Plan for Paying Fire Victims Before Insurers September 23, 2019 By Steven Church PG&E Corp. and a group of insurers urged a judge to reject a competing reorganization plan for the bankrupt utility... Read More