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AmTrust To Grab Florida WC Insurer With Low-Hazard Risks
AmTrust Financial Services Inc. said it will snatch up a a workers compensation insurer affiliated with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida (Florida Blue) in a bid to add more low-hazard risks to ...
NFL Agrees to No Caps on Payments to Ailing Ex-Players
The NFL has made a big and necessary concession in its landmark concussion settlement with former players. A new agreement has been struck between the league and a group of retirees seeking ...
Spitzer Must Face Greenberg Defamation Suit, Judge Rules
A defamation lawsuit by former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Maurice Greenberg against Eliot Spitzer may move toward trial, a state judge ruled after throwing out many of ...
Port Authority Reaches Deal on Silverstein’s 3 World Trade
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey approved a financing agreement for Larry Silverstein's 3 World Trade Center that allows him to use $159 million of insurance proceeds to help build the ...
Only 1 in 5 Small Businesses Hiring Students for Summer: Employers Hldgs
Summer jobs at local restaurants, retail stores, medical offices and other small businesses may be hard to come by for student workers this summer, according to a new poll of small business owners by ...
Despite Concessions to U.S. Farmers, Big Data Giants Still in Control
In the tussle between U.S. farmers and big data purveyors, farmers are winning some control over details about crop and growing conditions on their land, but most data sellers are retaining ultimate ...
ABA Says Lawyers Can Monitor Jurors’ Social Media Sites
Lawyers have been given the green light to scan the social media sites of jurors. The American Bar Association says it's ethical for lawyers to scour online for publicly available musings of citizens ...
U.S. Treasury Secretary to Defend FSOC Work at Congressional Hearing
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew pushed back against Republican efforts to curtail the work of a council of regulators charged with preventing another financial crisis and said a failure to ...