North Carolina medical regulators voted to cut back on the amount of information they will post on a Web site about malpractice settlements of North Carolina doctors. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that the North Carolina Medical Board …
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday endorsed dozens of procedural changes to improve fire safety and coordinate oversight at construction sites, responding to the failures that led to a fatal fire last summer at a ground zero skyscraper. The former Deutsche …
Special interest groups trying to influence policy and legislation on Beacon Hill aren’t letting a poor economy slow them down, spending 13 percent more on lobbyists in the first six months of this year than the same period last year. …
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill this week aimed at ending the Federal Aviation Administration’s sometimes cozy relationship with the airline industry and reversing purported complacency on safety oversight. Several Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives, …
The current global risk environment is a time to “analyze operations and take the tough decisions necessary to ensure survival in any downturn,” Julian James, a senior executive with global insurance broker Lockton, told an international audience of insurance industry …
A fire forced hundreds of vacationers and residents in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to evacuate from a four block beachfront area of the city. Authorities say a half-pound of a chemical used to treat swimming pools caught fire July 15 …
A man working at a Miami recycling plant is dead after being run over by a 40,000-pound front-end loader. The accident happened July 16 at Downtown Concrete Recycling. A Miami-Dade Fire Rescue says the loader was moving piles of concrete …
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration wants the operators of a Savannah plant to pay a stiff fine. OSHA has proposed a $110,000 penalty for CITGO Asphalt Refining Co. The agency said the company was cited for 25 safety violations …
Zurich North America launched a distributor-focused Web site (www.techinsurance.zurichna.com) to serve as a central source for the news, information and educational resources about technology risks. The user-friendly navigation enables distributors to access resources and tools they need to advise customers …
Georgia transportation officials are planning to replace a confusing sign at the left-hand interstate exit where last year’s deadly Bluffton University bus crash occurred. The National Transportation Safety Board last week blamed the sign as the primary cause for the …