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FAA Reports Recent Near-Collision of Jet With Drone
Federal officials say a U.S. jet airliner nearly collided in March with an airborne drone in the sky over Tallahassee, Florida. Jim Williams of the Federal Aviation Administration's unmanned aircraft ...
Class Action Threat: Corp. Bylaws Can Make Suing and Losing Investors Pay Legal Costs, Says Delaware Supreme Ct.
Delaware's Supreme Court has ruled that corporations can adopt bylaws requiring an investor who sues and loses to pay the company's legal costs, potentially upending the economics of a booming type ...
Traffic Deaths in Fracking Towns are Deadly Side Effect of Booming Business
Booming production of oil and natural gas has exacted a little-known price on some of the nation's roads, contributing to a spike in traffic fatalities in states where many streets and highways are ...
Wildfires Will Cost $1.8B to Extinguish in 2014, U.S. Dept. of Ag
According to a Congressionally-mandated report issued on May 1, the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior (DOI) are projected to spend over $470 million more than is available to ...
Louisiana Citizens Starts Home Depot Claims Program
Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will connect its policyholders with experienced, licensed and insured local contractors in a program with Home Depot. The state's property insurer of last ...
Insurers Tapped for Part of Potential $100M Settlement Over U.S. Meningitis Outbreak
The trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of a Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people asked a judge on Tuesday to approve a settlement that would pay out $100 ...
Risk of Landfalling Hurricanes Reduced as Upcoming El Niño Event Plays Out
The big news heading into the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season is the imminent arrival of what we think will be a significant El Niño event, the first such event since 2009. An El Niño event is a ...
Defending Food Labeling Claims at the Class Certification Stage: A Recipe for Success
If you are shocked and surprised that your Crunch Berries have no berries, your Froot Loops contain no fruit and your "all natural" ice cream contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs), you're ...