Roundy’s Supermarkets, Inc., a grocery chain operating Pick ‘n Save and Metro Market stores, violated federal law when it fired an employee, who was also a nursing mother, for requesting an accommodation at her workstation to maintain her breast milk supply, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced. According to the suit, the cake decorator asked to keep a water bottle at her workstation to maintain her milk supply. Roundy’s Pick ‘n Save location in Madison, Wisconsin initially accommodated the request. However, after Roundy’s transferred the employee to a Metro Market store in Shorewood Hills…
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Elon Musk’s tunneling company will begin assessing its ability to construct a mile-long underground tunnel in South Dallas after a proposed project in the area was one of three winners of a company contest on Tuesday. The Boring Company has built a number of underground tunnels across the United States for public and industrial use, including in Austin and Bastrop. In January, the company announced an open call for new tunnel proposals up to a mile long, with the offer to build the winning submission at the company’s expense. A proposal to build a tunnel connecting the University of North…
Dr. Stanley Crittenden will take up the post at Cigna’s health benefits division months after his predecessor became CMO of the entire organization.
Chevron Corp. is warning that California is careening toward an energy crisis because of the Iran war and that the company may quit refining oil in the state unless officials roll back taxes and regulations. California, the most populous US state, is highly exposed to the disruption rippling across commodity markets because it imports about 20% of its refined fuels from Asia. Related: Iran Charges Some Ships Hormuz Transit Fees for Safe Passage Now shipments from China, South Korea, Singapore and elsewhere are at risk of slowing significantly as Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz, leaving Asian nations struggling to…
Introduction As of March 18, 2026, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported that 46 people died while in their custody or detention facilities since the start of the second Trump administration in January 2025. The number of deaths of people in detention during 2025 exceeded the highest seen in over two decades, and deaths in 2026 are on track to meet or exceed that number. President Trump implemented immigration policy changes focused on increasing interior enforcement efforts to support mass deportation, which increased the number of immigrants detained by ICE to over 68,000 as of February 7, 2026, an increase of over…
Two New Orleans personal injury attorneys were found guilty last week of running a scheme to defraud insurance companies by staging fraudulent accidents. The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Vanessa Motta and Jason Giles were found guilty of all charges pending against them, following a three-week jury trial presided over by Chief U.S. District Judge Wendy B. Vitter. The jury also convicted law firms Motta Law LLC and The King Firm LLC and co-conspirator Diamanike Stalbert. The jury found Motta, Motta Law, Giles and The King Firm guilty of all…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday Cox Communications cannot be held liable for piracy by its internet service subscribers of songs owned by Sony Music, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and other labels, ending their billion-dollar-plus music copyright lawsuit. The 9-0 ruling overturned a lower court’s decision to order a new trial to determine how much the internet service provider owed the record labels for a form of liability called contributory copyright infringement. Cox had said a retrial could have produced a verdict against the Atlanta-based ISP of as much as $1.5 billion. More than 50 labels joined…
Brit Group Holdings Ltd., the London-based specialty re/insurer, announced the launch of “BRIDGE,” a new cargo consortium. The consortium, which will be one of the largest consortiums in the cargo market, is now writing business and offers cargo line capacity of up to US$80 million. Amid ever-growing insurable values, BRIDGE will address a wide range of broker and client needs providing comprehensive cover and protection for cargo risks around the globe, Brit said. “BRIDGE is the latest consortium launched by Brit and another demonstration of leadership across our core classes. By bringing together significant capacity BRIDGE will further deepen the…
Chaucer Group, the London-based specialty re/insurance group, and Ceto AI, the maritime technology specialist, announced the launch of a new marine managing general agent (MGA), operating as a Lloyd’s coverholder. Under the arrangement, Ceto is authorized to bind marine hull risks on behalf of Chaucer’s Lloyd’s syndicate, with additional capacity provided by Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), a leading insurer and member of the Tokio Marine Group. Ceto AI, which provides predictive analytics for the maritime industry, uses high-frequency vessel machinery and performance data to inform underwriting decisions. The launch marks a significant development in the application of real-time operational data…
Olympus Insurance Company, a Florida homeowners specialist, continues to seek between $100 million and $150 million of reinsurance limit from its Abacab Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) catastrophe bond issuance, but the company continues to aim to capitalize on investor appetite and has lowered the price guidance for the notes on offer once again, Artemis has learned.Olympus Insurance Company ventured into the catastrophe bond market for the first time earlier this month, looking to secure a capital markets backed source of multi-year Florida named storm reinsurance protection. Initially, the company was aiming to secure $100 million of reinsurance from its debut cat…
Sypher Insurance Exchange, the startup property insurer that the Florida Association of Insurance Agents invested in two years ago, has won a permit to operate from the Florida Office of Insurance Agents. The Tampa-based reciprocal now has until mid-May to file additional documentation, showing bank deposits and other information, with OIR before receiving a certificate of authority, reads a March 16 consent order signed by OIR and company officials. Sypher CEO Subhashish Dutta The company represents that it has “the required minimum surplus on hand to satisfy” statutory requirements, the order notes. Company officials said in 2024 that they had…
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