West News Union Splits From Uber and Lyft on California Worker Rights Law July 26, 2019 Uber and Lyft suffered a setback in their months-long fight against rules that could force them to reclassify California drivers... Read More
Moody’s Links with Four Twenty Seven to Price Climate Risk: Leonid Bershidsky July 26, 2019 The acquisition of California-based Four Twenty Seven, Inc., by Moody’s Corporation could signify the beginning of a major shift in... Read More
‘Hail Protector’ Inventor Looks for Buy-in from Insurers July 26, 2019 Mark Twain purportedly said, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” An electronics engineer who moved... Read More
East News Roof Torn off Cape Cod Hotel, as High Winds, Tornado Strike July 25, 2019 YARMOUTH, Mass. — High winds and one radar-confirmed tornado ripped off a hotel roof, downed trees that blocked roads, and... Read More
Documentary Series Examines Cost of Small-Town Vigilantism July 25, 2019 NEW YORK — It’s been 38 years since a man named Ken Rex McElroy was shot to death by an... Read More
West News Insurers Offer Competing Plan to Rescue PG&E from Bankruptcy July 25, 2019 SAN FRANCISCO — Insurance companies contending that Pacific Gas & Electric owes them more than $20 billion from wildfire claims... Read More
International News Europe Heat Wave Set to Break Records: Paris Hotter Than Cairo July 25, 2019 Europe’s latest summer heatwave broke heat records just weeks after the continent recorded its hottest ever June, fueling concern that... Read More
J&J Targets Science Behind Thousands of Baby Powder-Cancer Cases July 25, 2019 Johnson & Johnson, seeking to head off claims by thousands of women that its iconic Baby Powder caused their cancer,... Read More
NTSB to Issue Recommendations on 737 Max Certification July 25, 2019 U.S. air crash investigators, who are assisting in probes of two fatal crashes of Boeing Co.’s grounded 737 Max, plan... Read More
After a Disaster, Imagery Gives Insurance Companies a Clear Picture: Viewpoint July 25, 2019 Some of the most famous planes in the weather world are hurricane hunters, piloted by steely nerved aviators who fly... Read More