The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received a total of 82,792 private sector discrimination charge filings last fiscal year, the highest volume of incoming charges since 2002 and the largest annual increase (9%) since the early 1990s, the agency …
Traffic crashes cost American motorists more than $160 billion a year while inflicting a staggering per-person toll on small cities such as Little Rock, Ark., Columbia, S.C., and Pensacola, Fla., according to a AAA research report. The study found that …
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should have reacted sooner to concerns about hazardous fumes in government-issued trailers housing thousands of Gulf Coast hurricane victims, a CDC official told a congressional panel. “In retrospect, we did not engage …
The Senate campaign of comedian-turned-candidate Al Franken is dealing with a bump served up by an unpaid fine. The state of New York fined Franken’s personal corporation $25,000 for not carrying workers’ compensation insurance for almost three years through 2005. …
Legislation that requires day-care centers to carry liability insurance has received bipartisan support in an Oklahoma House of Representatives committee. The House Human Services Committee voted 15-0 for the legislation after the mother of a three-year-old boy who suffered a …
Arbitration Forums, Inc. (AF), the nation’s largest provider of inter-insurance dispute resolution services, reported that it resolved more than 477,000 inter-company claims disputes valued at over $2.2 billion in 2007, a new record. Disputes leading to arbitration typically arise when …
The Alabama House passed a bill Tuesday that would allow the sale of gourmet and imported beers that have an alcohol content as high as 13.9 percent. Under current law, beer sold in Alabama can’t have an alcohol level higher …
South Carolina Drivers who don’t slow down and switch lanes on a four-lane highway to avoid law enforcement or emergency workers on the roadside could get four points on their license under legislation approved Tuesday by a House committee. The …
Emergency officials are keeping an eye on the Greenbrier and Ohio rivers after heavy rains moved across West Virginia. The National Weather Service issued a flood warning for the Greenbrier River and was expected to crest at 15.5 feet, 1.5 …
Walt Disney World is making safety changes to an Animal Kingdom roller coaster because an employee died after she was struck by one of the ride’s cars last year. Disney is changing the entry and exit areas of Primeval Whirl …