Monthly Archives: <span>March 2023</span>

Cyclone Lashes Pacific’s Vanuatu as Residents Hunker Down

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Residents of Vanuatu were hunkering down Wednesday as a cyclone barreled through the Pacific island nation. Authorities said that there were power outages in some areas and many fallen trees and branches, but it was …

US Marshals Computer System Hit by Ransomware Attack

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major breach of a U.S. Marshals Service computer system this month with ransomware, hackers stole sensitive and personally identifiable data about agency employees and targets of investigations, an agency spokesman said Tuesday. The hacked system …

Greek Stationmaster Arrested After Crash Kills at Least 36

TEMPE, Greece (AP) — The stationmaster in the city of Larissa was arrested, Greek police said Wednesday, following a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train outside a nearby town that flattened carriages, killed at least 36 …

ICA named in 2022 Top 10 Claims Adjusters

Charlotte, NC., March 2, 2023 – Insurance Claim Adjusters, LP (ICA) has been named to the Top 10 claim adjusting firms in the nation for 2022, by Financial Services Review in their special issue on Claim Adjusting 2022, published last …

Delaware Court Dismisses Shareholder Suit over McDonald’s Sexual Harassment Policies

A Delaware Court on Wednesday dismissed a shareholder lawsuit filed against McDonald’s Corp. and its board of directors, finding the plaintiffs did not show that the directors ignored red flags that demonstrated widespread sexual harassment was taking place. Court of …

Federal Court Denies Massachusetts Hospital’s Covid-19 Business Interruption Claim

A Massachusetts hospital has been denied its insurance claim for Covid-19 related costs and lost revenues under business interruption and disease contamination provisions of its property insurance policies. U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton of the federal court in Boston …

Fla. Tort Reform Bill Aims to Pick Up Where Lawmakers Left Off

Outside of insurance attorneys, plaintiffs’ lawyers and some doctors, few people in Florida may be familiar with what are known as letters of protection. But critics say the instruments, in which doctors agree to take a share of the judgment …

Bangladesh Owner to Get $22.48M After Ship Explosion in Ukraine

Insurers are about to pay state-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corp. (BSC) $22.48 million for its vessel that was hit by a missile during fighting in Ukraine, two officials involved said on Tuesday. The expected settlement is one of the first shipping …

How Officials Cracked Case of Eyedrops that Blinded People

NEW YORK (AP) — The patients’ eyes were painfully inflamed. They could sense light but could see almost nothing else. A doctor called one case the worst eye infection he’d ever seen. It was the beginning of a national outbreak …

Judge Upholds Acquittal in 9 Hurricane Nursing Home Deaths

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – A Florida judge rejected a prosecutor’s impassioned plea Monday, saying he would not reconsider his acquittal of a nursing home administrator in the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma knocked out the facility’s …