Business leaders around the world rate unemployment as the most concerning risk followed by infectious diseases, fiscal crisis and cyberattacks, but climate risks are on the rise, according to a new report…
SB 1159 amends existing workers’ compensation laws to address the impact of employees who contract COVID-19 and the extent that such illness is considered industrial, and therefore entitles the employee to workers’…
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on maintaining a safe workplace, AB 685 amends the Labor Code in several areas to require employers to adhere to stricter occupational health…
By Erin Ayers, Advisen Over a dozen minor league baseball teams and their owners have sued their insurers for “catastrophic” financial losses tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, stating that virus exclusions in…
The novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV, now called COVID-19, has continued to spread through China and beyond, with more than 1,800 deaths reported as of this writing. The virus’s spread has also had major…
Facebook has settled a lawsuit over facial recognition technology, agreeing to pay $550m (£419m) over accusations it had broken an Illinois state law regulating the use of biometric details. The settlement was…
A recent decision by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on the March 2018 Uber crash that killed a pedestrian in Arizona split the blame among Uber, the company’s autonomous vehicle (AV),…
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA) It’s been a long, painful road for the victims of some of California’s worst fires: the Camp fire of 2018, the Tubbs fire of 2017, the Butte…
With thousands of rural Californians losing their homeowners’ insurance because of wildfire risks, the state’s “insurer of last resort” sued its regulator Friday, seeking to block his order requiring the insurer to…
As New York lawmakers prepare legislation to regulate the state’s gig economy, one app company has pitched reclassifying workers who put in at least 25 hours a week as full-time employees. Workers…