A piece of lab machinery that killed a Yale University student when it ensnared her hair was missing required safeguards, and the accident exposed problems with the school’s safety policies, federal safety investigators said in a letter to the school. …
A lawyer in Mexico for a leading U.S. drug manufacturer, which promotes its global anticorruption policy, offered to pay an opposing expert in a business lawsuit if he would leave the country on a key court date to undermine the …
A San Jose teenager stabbed outside a McDonald’s is suing the restaurant owners for failing to provide enough security. The Santa Clara County lawsuit filed Tuesday by 17-year-old Jonathan Paredes and his mother Gloria Paredes alleges negligence, saying the McDonald’s …
A Roanoke-based moving company will pay $30,000 as part of a settlement with a Waynesboro-area man who says he was denied a job because he wouldn’t cut his long, dreadlocked hair. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit …
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a national insurance company, contending the firm violated federal law by refusing to hire a North Carolina man after he disclosed he was participating in a methadone treatment program for a drug …
Florida lawmakers have been frustrated trying to resolve insurance issues on many fronts in recent years. One of the most troublesome has been the growth of fraudulent claims for drivers who have personal injury protection insurance. Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty …
A Houma man has been sentenced to one year in prison for fraudulently receiving money from the $20 billion claims fund that BP PLC established after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey also on Tuesday …
Authorities say an explosion and fire at the Clean Harbors Inc. plant in El Dorado caused no injuries or health threats and the fire was allowed to burn itself out. Union County Emergency Management Director Jerry Thomas told the El …
Authorities say arson is to blame for destroying a mobile office on the site where a new $3.7 million Michigan State Police post is being built in the Bay City area. The Bay City Times reports the fire was spotted …
Numerous safety violations contributed to the death of a construction worker crushed by a falling steel beam on the University of Iowa campus, but regulators reduced a fine after his company argued that he might not have been there if …