This report, based on a nationally representative survey of office-based OBGYNs practicing in the United States, examines the provision of sexual and reproductive health care provided by OBGYNs before and after the Dobbs decision, comparing the experiences of OBGYNs practicing in states where abortion is fully banned, states with gestational restrictions, and states where abortion remains available under most circumstances.
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After Clippinger sued, State Farm triggered the appraisal clause in the insurance policy, which allows either side to seek a binding independent valuation if they cannot agree on the payout. Three appraisers produced three different numbers. State Farm’s appraiser came in at $14,432 – actually below the original payout. Clippinger’s appraiser said $17,756.69. The neutral third appraiser landed at $18,476.13. Clippinger’s appraiser eventually came around to the third appraiser’s figure, and the two issued a written decision valuing the van at $18,476. Under the policy’s terms, that number was binding. State Farm paid Clippinger more than $4,000 on top of what she had…
Patriot Growth Insurance Services, headquartered in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, hired Andrew Drayer as regional president, Northeast. He succeeds Bill Donato, who previously held this role and now serves as president of retail insurance. Drayer brings experience across commercial insurance, operations, strategy, and integration. He most recently served in a senior executive role at HUB International New England, where he led business and financial operations, including claims, compliance, legal, data analytics, facilities, and M&A integration. Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles at MAPFRE Insurance and at Salem Five Bank. Was this article valuable? Yes No Here are more articles…
The conflict in the Middle East has disrupted supplies of crucial raw materials and pushed up prices of the printed circuit boards (PCB) used in almost all electronic devices, from smartphones and computers to AI servers, industry sources and executives said. The disruption is a fresh blow to electronics manufacturers which are already grappling with soaring memory chip costs and highlights the broadening impact of the Iran war that has wreaked havoc on supply chains, plastics, and oil supplies. Iran struck Saudi Arabia’s Jubail petrochemical complex in early April, forcing a halt in production of high-purity polyphenylene ether (PPE) resin…
A video clip of a Florida woman driving her elevated pickup truck over a Lamborghini sports car has gone viral, again raising the issue of elevated trucks’ blind spots leading to accidents and insurance claims. The woman in Lake Nona, Florida, near Orlando, apparently was searching for a parking spot in a gym parking lot when her jacked-up Chevrolet Silverado ran over the sloped hood of the low-slung Lamborghini last week, according to news reports and a posting on X, formerly Twitter. No injuries were reported. The driver of the sports car appeared to back up as the truck approached,…
A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies was sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday in a case that forced the state to clamp down on an industry plagued by repeated scandal and notoriously lax oversight. Carie Hallford faced between 25 and 35 years in prison under a plea agreement. Some family members of those whose bodies were left to rot had urged Judge Eric Bentley to impose the maximum sentence. But the judge said Carie Hallford made credible claims of being a victim of domestic violence and her ex-husband, Jon Hallford,…
Rule spent 38 years working in West Virginia coal mines before retiring in 2015. His final stint was a ten-month stretch with Wildcat Energy, LLC, which owned the Eagle #3 mine in Bolt, West Virginia. Before that, Rule had worked at the Eagle #1 and #3 mines for Rhino Energy, a subcontractor for Wildcat, from mid-2012 through the end of 2014. When Rhino’s subcontract ended, Rule moved onto Wildcat’s payroll and continued working at the Eagle #3 mine.
The hit was in line with HCA’s expectations. The hospital operator is the first of its peers to detail financial impacts from the expiration of more generous subsidies in Affordable Care Act plans.
First quarter 2026 net income at The Hartford increased 36% to about $851 million as catastrophe losses during the period were half the amount of the same time a year ago. Pretax catastrophe losses for Q1 were about $230 million, driven by winter storms and severe convective storms. Catastrophe losses were $467 million for Q1 2025, mostly due to the Los Angeles wildfires. The Hartford on April 23 reported that its business insurance segment generated $536 million of the net income total for Q1. Net written premiums in business insurance increased 6% compared with a year ago to about $3.9…
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Monday over Bayer AG’s effort to shut down thousands of lawsuits accusing the company of failing to warn users that the active ingredient in its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. The justices heard arguments in the German drugmaking and crop science company’s appeal of a jury verdict in Missouri state court awarding $1.25 million to a man named John Durnell who said he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma after years of exposure to glyphosate in Roundup. Paul Clement, arguing for Bayer, told the justices that federal law governing pesticides should prevent failure-to-warn claims like…
The Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) has made two separate cyclone payouts, one being an ex-gratia payment of FJD 1.2 million (US $545,000) to the Government of Fiji following tropical cyclone Vaianu, and a $500,000 payout to the Government of the Solomon, after its parametric insurance policy was triggered by cyclone Maila.Cyclone Vaianu brought severe winds, and significant flooding impacts across the Western division of Fiji in early April. “While the event did not meet the parametric thresholds required to trigger Fiji’s insurance policy, it came close,” the insurer explained in a LinkedIn post. Given the scale of hardship that…
The city of Baltimore suffered a defeat in its efforts to address the opioid epidemic last week when the Maryland Supreme Court vacated a $152 million public nuisance verdict won by the city against drug distributors McKesson and AmerisourceBergen. The state’s high court erased the verdict and returned the case to the Baltimore City Circuit Court, ordering that court to follow the high court’s March 2026 opinion (Express Scripts, Inc., et al. v. Anne Arundel County) in which it answered “no” to the question of whether the actions of drug distributors can constitute an actionable public nuisance, which was the…
The Midwest is bracing for severe weather on Monday, including the threat of the excessive rainfall, hail damaging wind gusts and tornadoes. Missouri, Illinois and Indiana face the greatest risk of severe storms. Scattered large hail, flooding, severe and damaging winds, and strong to intense tornadoes could develop across the region, the National Weather Service said. “Storms will intensify Monday afternoon and continue into the night, increasing the risk across a heavily populated part of the region,” said Brandon Buckingham, AccuWeather Meteorologist. “The St. Louis area is in the heart of the zone facing the greatest potential for strong, long-track…
A Los Angeles Times analysis found that in the Palisades and Eaton fire zones alone, FAIR Plan enrollment nearly doubled from 14,272 to 28,440 between 2020 and 2024. Statewide, the number of FAIR Plan dwelling policies more than doubled over four years, from 202,897 to 451,799, while the total exposure covered rose to $458 billion – almost triple the 2020 figure.