Litigation/Liability Trends
States—Not Feds—Should Oversee Workers Comp; Reform Challenges Mount
Workers compensation insurance is getting a bad rap these days, with everyone from an investigative media organization to North Carolina's governor offering criticisms of how "the grand bargain" of ...
Amazon Gets Fresh Approval for Drone Tests
Amazon.com Inc. has won approval from U.S. federal regulators to test a delivery drone outdoors, less than a month after the e-commerce powerhouse blasted regulators for being slow to approve ...
Radon Levels Up in Pa. Homes Post Fracking: John Hopkins Research
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers say that levels of radon in Pennsylvania homes—where 42 percent of readings surpass what the U.S. government considers safe—have been ...
Uber Seeks U.S. Court Dismissal of Lawsuit Regarding Alleged Delhi Rape
Uber asked a U.S. court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by an alleged rape victim in India's capital, saying the ride-sharing company could not be held legally responsible for the driver's acts. The ...
Research: Older Workers Valuable But Lack ‘Fluid Intelligence’
In the workplace, age matters but hiring or promoting based on age-related mental abilities can be a minefield, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. Older ...
Google Wallet Privacy Suit Moving Forward
A federal judge has rejected Google Inc.'s request to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the technology company of invading the privacy of users of its Google Wallet electronic payment service by sharing ...
14 AGs Seek Congressional Probe of Herbal Supplements Industry
A group of 14 state attorneys general on Thursday asked the U.S. Congress to investigate the herbal supplements industry after a New York probe of the products turned up ingredients that were not ...
Is Wind Turbine Noise Causing Health Problems? Researchers Begin Study
Wind turbines provide clean, abundant energy and bolster America's power grid. But across the world people are banding together to fight wind farms, blaming noise for interrupted sleep and a host of ...