May 7, 2024
Insurance broker Hub International Limited announced it has acquired the assets of William R. Cargill Insurance Agency, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Based in Topsfield, Massachusetts, Cargill Insurance is a family owned and operated insurance agency providing …
May 7, 2024
A steel drum weighing thousands of pounds somehow rolled out of a construction site in Pittsburgh and eventually struck and killed a woman who was walking on a nearby sidewalk, police said. The accident occurred around 10:40 a.m. last Friday …
May 7, 2024
A bridge damaged in a fiery crash that kept Interstate 95 in Connecticut closed Thursday and Friday has been demolished. A live camera operated by the Connecticut Department of Transportation on Saturday showed excavators and bucket loaders scooping up rubble …
May 7, 2024
JM Wilson Hires Kemp as Transportation Renewal Underwriter JM Wilson, headquartered in Portage, Michigan, hired Corey Kemp as transportation renewal underwriter. Kemp is responsible for underwriting renewal commercial transportation accounts, corresponding with carrier underwriters and maintaining relationships with independent agents …
May 7, 2024
Massachusetts’s highest court on Monday weighed whether ballot proposals that would redefine the relationship between app-based companies like Uber Technologies and Lyft and their drivers should be allowed to go before voters in November. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justices expressed …
May 6, 2024
Maryland plans to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in just over four years at an estimated cost between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion, a state transportation official said Thursday. The state plans to build a new span by fall …
May 6, 2024
Massachusetts has become the latest front in a years-long battle in the United States over whether ride-share drivers for Uber and Lyft should be treated as independent contractors or employees entitled to benefits and wage protections. The state’s top court …
May 6, 2024
Savage River Lodge and Little Crossings will pay $150,000 and furnish equitable relief to settle federal charges that they discriminated against an employee because of her pregnancy and then fired her. The Frostburg, Maryland businesses, part of Fronterra Resources, offer …
May 6, 2024
It’s now illegal to sell weight-loss and muscle-building supplements to minors in New York, under a first-in-the-nation law that went into effect this week. Experts say loose federal regulation of dietary supplements has resulted in these products sometimes including unapproved …
May 3, 2024
A veteran Pennsylvania workers’ compensation attorney will soon have a chance to argue before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that his own use of cannabinoid oil (CBD oil) is covered by workers’ compensation. It’s an argument he won last November with …