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Earthquake Kills 157, Injures 5,700 In China’s Sichuan Province
China's worst earthquake in three years on Saturday killed at least 157 people and injured more than 5,700, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said. The magnitude 6.6 quake hit a remote mountainous area ...
World To Get Fewer New Wind Turbines In 2013
The world will see a sharp drop in the number of new wind turbines installed this year after record growth in 2012, a report by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) said. It predicted a strong ...
Producer compensation programs send clear messages about what a carrier values. Commission rates, incentive structures, bonuses, and performance thresholds direct...
Google Again Beats Viacom in YouTube Copyright Case
A federal judge has thrown out Viacom Inc.'s lawsuit accusing Google Inc. of posting its programs on YouTube without permission, a year after a federal appeals court had revived the landmark ...
Colorado Jury Finds Helmet Maker Riddell Negligent
A Colorado jury in a lawsuit brought by the family of a severely injured high school football player has found that helmet maker Riddell was negligent in failing to warn players about concussion ...
Woody Allen v. William Faulkner: Fair Use?
A lawsuit filed by William Faulkner's heirs over a quote in the Woody Allen film "Midnight in Paris" has been scheduled for trial April 7, 2014, in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Mississippi. The ...S&P: Bermuda Outlook Revision ‘No Impact’ on Bermuda Reinsurer Ratings
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services in a report titled "The Recent Outlook Revision On Bermuda Does Not Affect Bermudian (Re)Insurers", said that "despite the recent outlook revision on the ...
Illinois Jury Sides with Johnson & Johnson in Hip Implant Case
Last Tuesday, an Illinois jury found in favor of Johnson & Johnson's DePuy orthopedics unit in a second product liability trial of nearly 11,000 lawsuits over the company's recalled ASR metal hip ...
Lean Times Drive Fiat’s Maserati To Test Drive Reinvented Ghibli
In these lean economic times, even supercar makers are reaching down-market—which for Maserati means a price tag below 100,000 euros ($131,000). The Italian company owned by Fiat is reinventing its ...