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U.S. Sees More Deadly Billion-Dollar Disasters as Carbon Emissions Soar
The United States staggered through a steady onslaught of deadly billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in an extra hot 2021 while the nation's greenhouse gas emissions jumped 6 percent because ...
Smart Guns Could Be Available in U.S. in 2022
Personalized smart guns, which can be fired only by verified users, may finally become available to U.S. consumers after two decades of questions about reliability and concerns they will usher in a ...
U.S. Businesses Fear They Could Face Never-Ending Chain of Liability From Take-Home COVID-19
As COVID-19 cases surge in the United States, businesses say they fear a California court ruling has increased the likelihood that companies will be sued for infections, even by people who are not ...
Deadly Soot Levels Unchecked as Big Oil, EPA Spar Over Regs
A deadly form of soot pollution from U.S. refineries has gone unregulated for decades because of a dispute between the U.S. oil industry and federal environmental officials over how to measure it, ...
Trial for Florida Condo Collapse Set for March 2023
A major lawsuit in the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium building that killed 98 people will go to trial in March 2023, a judge said Wednesday. That's about six months later than ...
Flurry of Briefs Filed Supporting, Opposing OSHA COVID-19 ETS in U.S. Supreme Court
With the January 7, 2022, oral argument over the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Vaccine or Test Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) in the U.S. Supreme Court fast-approaching, ...
KCC Estimates $1B in Insured Losses From Colorado Wildfire
Catastrophe modeling firm KCC estimates the insured loss from the recent Colorado wildfire could be $1 billion. With nearly 1,000 structures destroyed, KCC said the Marshall Fire is the most ...
D&O Insurance Specialist IDs a Fourth Variant of COVID Shareholder Suits
Even over a holiday weekend, alerts were hitting the newswires in advance of Jan. 3—the deadline for shareholders of ON24 to apply for lead plaintiff status in a lawsuit against the online event ...