Monthly Archives: <span>July 2018</span>

Business News: Understory, EFI Global, Shift Technology

Understory Receives Patent to Manufacture Cost-Effective Weather Stations Understory, the weather network and analytics company, announced it received a patent for its cost-effective method of manufacturing weather stations. On the heels of its mechanical strain-based weather sensor patent, this secondary …

U.S. Agency Wants Automakers to Speed Up Takata Airbag Recalls

The U.S. government’s road safety agency is urging automakers to speed up replacement of potentially dangerous Takata airbag inflators. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a statement Friday that Heidi King, it’s top official, has met with 19 …

EPLI Part 1: Current Considerations

Ever since Harvey Weinstein became a top story, the discussion of sexual harassment and assault has become a topic that has exploded across the Internet and other media, resulting in scores of allegations and reports regarding other celebrities, public figures, …

AAA Says 2 Florida Cities No Longer Speed Traps

After nearly 23 years, the cities of Waldo and Lawtey are no longer designated “Traffic Traps” by AAA. AAA recently announced that it had approved a request from the cities to remove the designation after they “made significant improvements” to …

Lawsuit Alleges ADT Failed to Alert Officers to Alarms for Kansas Fire

Security services company ADT received alarms at a burning Topeka, Kansas, home with a woman inside but didn’t alert authorities about the deadly fire, according to a lawsuit. The wrongful death lawsuit was filed Wednesday on behalf of Elizabeth Frost’s …

Subcontractor ‘On Site’ Ahead of Fatal Wisconsin Blast

A communications company said Thursday that a subcontractor was working “on site” before an explosion that killed a Wisconsin firefighter this week. Authorities have said a crew punctured a natural gas main in downtown Sun Prairie on Tuesday, resulting in …

Flooding Cancels Hundreds of Trips to Coveted Arizona Waterfalls

Hundreds of tourists who booked coveted overnight trips on tribal land deep in a gorge off the Grand Canyon will have to reschedule after heavy flooding forced evacuations and shut down the area for at least a week. Abbie Fink, …

A Year After Death, No Fences Expected at Burning Man Event

Officials with counterculture festival Burning Man say they won’t install fences around major burns at this year’s event in the northern Nevada desert, nearly a year after the death of a man who ran into flames of a towering wooden …

Business News: Mitchell, Willis Towers Watson, GlobalPro Recovery

Mitchell Announces Strategic Integration Agreement With AirPro Diagnostics Mitchell International, Inc., a technology, connectivity and information provider to the property/casualty claims and collision repair industries, announced a strategic integration and joint marketing agreement with AirPro Diagnostics, LLC. to integrate AirPro’s …

Poultry Processing Plant Injuries Often Underreported

Meat and poultry processing workers often perform the same motions for hours at a time: pulling tenders off of chicken carcasses, tearing out their internal organs or trimming cuts of meat. These repetitive and forceful jobs, performed on long shifts …