An eastern Kentucky official has announced a settlement in a lawsuit over the drug OxyContin. The Appalachian News-Express cited a statement from Pike Judge-Executive Wayne T. Rutherford in reporting that drug maker Purdue Pharma agreed to pay $4 million to …
BNSF Railway has agreed to pay $55,000 to settle claims by state regulators that the company failed to fix defects at seven railroad crossings in northwest Washington. The Bellingham Herald reports that six of the crossings were in Whatcom County …
Washington state has filed suit against two companies to try to recover firefighting costs from a blaze that destroyed 61 homes and blackened 36 square miles last year. A state investigation into the cause of the Taylor Bridge Fire in …
Ron Thacker only worked at Bloomington’s UNARCO plant for a couple of years as a young man in the early 1950s, but it left an indelible imprint on his life – and his lungs. Thacker, now 77, is among more …
A New Orleans, La., jury has found two men charged with looting a convenience store during Hurricane Isaac guilty of the lesser offense of attempted looting. The Times-Picayune reports Timothy Hartford, 28, and Joshua Hogan, 24, were the first people …
After months of mulling the city’s response to Superstorm Sandy, lawmakers proposed Wednesday to require backup generators for traffic lights, a system to track everyone in shelters for people with medical problems and other changes in emergency response. The City …
Hotchkiss Insurance Programs, LLC announced a dividend distribution to the Texas Home Builders Workers’ Compensation Safety Group (THB) bringing total dividends paid to the group to $548,753. The announcement marks the sixth dividend paid to the group’s policyholders by Texas …
Safety management at the Chinese firm whose poultry slaughterhouse caught fire earlier this week killing 120 people was a “total mess” and two senior executives have been detained by the authorities, state media said on Thursday. The local government is …
FAIR Health and the Commonwealth of Kentucky Department of Workers’ Claims (DWC) today announced that FAIR Health has been selected to help amend the fee schedule used for Kentucky physicians in that state’s workers’ compensation program. The schedule is widely …
Three bills to tighten regulations on salt domes won final passage and are headed to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s desk as Louisiana lawmakers respond to a 15-acre sinkhole in Assumption Parish that forced 350 residents out of their homes. Jindal was …