Amazon Reports Over 19,000, or 1.44%, of U.S. Frontline Employees Had Covid-19 October 2, 2020 By Jeffrey Dastin Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday said more than 19,000 of its U.S. frontline workers contracted the coronavirus this year, or 1.44%...
Meatpackers Deny Workers Benefits For Covid-19 Deaths, Illnesses September 29, 2020 By Tom Hals and Tom Polansek Saul Sanchez died in April, one of six workers with fatal COVID-19 infections at meatpacker JBS USA’s slaughterhouse in Greeley,...
Agriculture Workers Risk Safety and Health During Pandemic September 28, 2020 By Frank Hernandez States such as Virginia, Oregon and Washington have created their own enforceable rules to control, prevent and mitigate the spread...
Coughing Dummies Help Boeing and United Track Viruses on Planes September 16, 2020 By Justin Bachman For the past four months, United Airlines Holdings Inc. and Boeing Co. have been flying around jetliners loaded with mannequins,...
UK Firms Hail Victory in Battle Over Covid Insurance Claims September 15, 2020 By Carolyn Cohn and Kirstin Ridley London judges have ruled that some of the world’s biggest insurers were wrong to reject tens of thousands of claims...
Paulette Makes Rare Landfall In Bermuda, Grows to Cat 2 September 15, 2020 By Danica Coto SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Paulette made a rare landfall in Bermuda Monday and strengthened into a Category 2...
Movie Producer Sues Chubb for Breaking Renewal Promise Over COVID-19 September 14, 2020 A movie production company that signed Ben Affleck to star in its latest “large-budget action thriller” accuses a Chubb insurer...
OSHA Cites Smithfield Foods For Failing to Protect Workers From Coronavirus September 11, 2020 By Tom Polansek and P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO, Sept 10 — The U.S. Labor Department said on Thursday it cited Smithfield Foods for failing to protect employees...
Auto Property Claim Volume Still Low, But Storm Damages Pushed Numbers September 11, 2020 Motorists who are hunkering down because of social distancing are continuing to file fewer collision claims, but a rash of...
Department Store Century 21 Shutting Down, Blames Insurers September 10, 2020 By Jeremy Hill Century 21 Stores, an iconic New York off-price department store chain, filed for bankruptcy with plans to shut down, becoming...