About 230 current and former employees at a Louisiana-based oil services company have filed a civil rights lawsuit, saying they were forced to work in facilities where racist graffiti, slurs and discrimination are commonplace. The lawsuit was filed this week …
Lawyers for hundreds of workers from India who claim they were subjected to abusive conditions at Gulf Coast shipyards after Hurricane Katrina are asking a federal judge to certify their lawsuit as a class action against the company that hired …
A federal judge has sentenced an associate of former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi to three years’ probation for conspiracy and embezzlement convictions related to his role as the accountant at Renzi’s family insurance firm. U.S. District Judge David Bury rejected …
Five people have sued an Ohio company over whether its fireplaces cut heating bills sharply and are made in the United States by Amish workers. The lawsuit was filed in Cleveland federal court. It asks that it be made a …
New Orleans plans to turn a naval base into a special center to handle future disasters. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved a plan to turn the Naval Support Activity site on the eastbank of New …
Many adjusters don’t have a clear understanding of what constitutes insurance bad faith. The tort of common law bad faith is an outgrowth of judicial concern that the insurance industry could employ improper economic motivation to delay or refuse to …
A company that makes pipe has been fined $88,000 by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration for exposing its workers to safety and health hazards at its Little Rock plant. OSHA said the fine had been imposed on Welspun …
Two dozen of the nation’s largest and best-funded farm groups have formed a coalition to counter poor publicity that they say has led to some bad public policies and threatens farmers’ ability to produce food for the world’s population. The …
California’s largest, private health insurers rejected 26 percent of all claims –13.1 million — submitted for the first three quarters of 2010, according to new findings by the Institute of Health and Socio-Economic Policy, the research arm of California Nurses …
A Daly City, Calif., council member accused of exercising at the gym and riding a motorcycle when she was supposed to be too injured to work appears headed for trial. San Mateo County prosecutors tell the San Francisco Examiner they …