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$10M Sleeper Lawsuit: Yankee Fan Taking ESPN Announcers to Court
A Yankees fan has filed a $10 million lawsuit against two ESPN announcers contending they mocked him when he was caught on national television sleeping in his seat during a game at Yankee Stadium. ...
More U.S. Corps. Moving to Avoid U.S. Taxes: Congress Study
Seventy-six U.S. corporations have shifted their tax domiciles out of the United States to other countries since 1983 to avoid U.S. taxes, with a sharp increase recently in such deals, a policy ...
IRC Study Finds More Auto Injury Claimants Hiring Attorneys
A new study from the Insurance Research Council (IRC) found that the percentage of auto-related personal injury protection (PIP) claimants represented by attorneys rose to 36 percent in 2012—up ...
Senate Panel Approves Bill Protecting Firms Sharing Hacker-Threat Data
A Senate panel approved a bill that would give Bank of America Corp., Visa Inc. and other companies operating critical U.S. computer systems legal protections for sharing hacking threats with each ...
Painkiller Prescribing by State: Highest in South; Florida Reverses Trend: CDC
Health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers in 2012, and providers in some states prescribed far more painkillers than those in other states, according to Vital ...
Private Insurers Taking to South Carolina Coast
More private insurers are selling wind coverage to South Carolina coastal property owners, leading to a decline in the population of the state's windpool. The South Carolina Wind and Hail ...
Sparking F-35 Fighter Jet Spurs Pre-Air Show Inspection Push
U.S. and British military officials are working on a joint directive to require mandatory inspections of engines on all Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets, after an Air Force F-35A caught fire at ...
Insurance Trade Agreements Are Good for Consumers and Markets: PCI Opinion
You can be sure critics are already getting ready to pounce on a preliminary draft of the financial services section of the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), invoking the usual rhetoric about the ...