Vermont lawmakers may ask the Shumlin administration to produce recommendations for reforming the medical malpractice system in the state with an eye to lowering health care costs. In debates over health care reform both at the state and federal level, …
California Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency for two more coastal counties hit by last week’s tsunami. The governor issued emergency proclamations March 16 for Mendocino and San Luis Obispo counties. In Mendocino, the harbor at Fort …
Growing concern by Americans over exposure from damaged nuclear plants in Japan has prompted officials to deploy more radiation monitors in the western United States and Pacific territories, federal environmental regulators say. Officials with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said …
An 84-year-old Flagstaff developer has filed a $1 million claim against the city accusing the police department of using excessive force during an arrest. The Arizona Daily Sun reports George Nackard alleges a police officer’s tactics resulted in a lasting …
North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm served a cease and desist order against Jeffrey David Neppl, a Fargo insurance agent who is alleged to have misappropriated a client’s money for his own personal use. The order bars Neppl from engaging …
Federal safety regulators cited Gavilon Grain LLC in Morral, Ohio, following the September 2010 death of a 20-year-old worker who was caught in a discharge auger while cleaning out a grain bin. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and …
A Madison County woman says she was burned by a hand warmer she put in her back pocket. An attorney for 24-year-old Lauren Self filed suit Monday against Implus Footcare, a North Carolina-based company that makes Little Hotties Hand Warmers. …
Kansas labor officials say nonfatal workplace injuries in Kansas fell by 12 percent in 2009, the most recent year the statistics are available. The Department of Labor says the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses showed the state’s nonfatal workplace …
The brother of one of the 11 workers killed last year on the Deepwater Horizon rig knows Gulf offshore drilling is important to his home state of Louisiana, but he wants Congress to keep pressuring the oil and gas industry …
Indiana work-safety officials are investigating the death of a forklift operator at an Indianapolis food plant. A spokeswoman for the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration told The Indianapolis Star that the agency will investigate why the concrete floor collapsed …