Monthly Archives: <span>December 2017</span>

Colorado Ski Resort Sued After Fatal Chairlift Fall

The family of a Texas woman who died after falling from a chairlift at a small Colorado ski resort as she was riding up with her two young daughters filed a wrongful death lawsuit Friday. William Huber, the girls’ father, …

Rules Protecting Coal Miners’ Dust Exposure to be Reviewed

Three years after the Obama administration lowered the allowable limits for miners’ exposure to coal dust, the Trump administration has brought the standards up for review. Federal mining regulators indicated Thursday that they are reconsidering rules meant to protect underground …

California’s Latest Wildfire Now Ranks as State’s Third Largest

The massive wildfire that California has been battling since early December has now ballooned into the third-largest in the state’s history, burning a record amount of acreage, officials said Saturday. Steve Concialdi of the Orange County Fire Authority said the …

Sex Scandals Put the Spotlight on Workplace Romances

The minefield that co-workers and companies navigate when it comes to love at work has gotten even more complex following the recent flood of sexual misconduct allegations roiling Hollywood, politics and the media. Office relationships that might have flown under …

Houston Considers New Housing Project in Flood Plain

A housing developer is hoping to win approval from Houston, Texas, officials to put a 151-acre project on a former golf course where the city and Harris County have spent millions of dollars to buy out homeowners whose properties were …

Linking Your Thoughts With a Semicolon

People are always confusing the semicolon with the colon, but they are quite different. All of the comma rules, in one way or other, are separating a dependent clause from the rest of the sentence (e.g., The manager, who led …

NTSB Blames Cruise Ship’s Navigators for Dock Crash

A federal report blamed cruise ship’s navigators for the boat crashing into a Ketchikan dock last year in Alaska, causing more than $1 million dollars in damage. The National Transportation Safety Board report was released after a U.S. Coast Guard …

PolyMet Offers $544M as Insurance Against Possible Mine Cleanup Costs

PolyMet Mining Corp. is offering the state a $544 million package of financial assurances to serve as an insurance policy to protect taxpayers from potentially having to cover the costs of closing and cleaning up a controversial copper-nickel mine it …

Drone’s Ease Piercing New York ‘No-Fly’ Zone Underscores Risks

A recreational drone operator whose device smashed into a U.S. Army helicopter in September flew undetected into a no-fly zone over New York set up to protect President Donald Trump and the United Nations. The National Transportation Safety Board on …

People News: The Hartford, AGCS, BSA, Gallagher Bassett

Bush Tapped to Lead Personal Lines at The Hartford The Hartford announced that Stephanie Bush, who has led Small Commercial since July 2014, will expand her responsibilities to include oversight for Personal Lines. She replaces Ray Sprague, who is retiring …