Archive for September 2019
For Forested Communities, It’s Fight or Flight in Face of Increasing Wildfires
Unless it’s Sunday, Kelly Loew is steering her rusty red Jeep down the same mail route in Shingletown, as she has six days a week for the last seven years. But she delivers less mail these days as California’s persistent … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreSongwriters and Record Companies Seek New Standard for Copyright Infringement Claims
Willie Nelson has famously said a country song is “three chords and the truth.” It might not be so simple anymore. A flood of lawsuits is threatening to upend that concept, making trivial similarities in songs the basis for a … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreFAA Chief Stresses Need for Better Plane Design and Piloting
The top U.S. aviation regulator briefed his counterparts from around the world on the grounded Boeing Co. 737 Max, reminding them that improvements in both aircraft design and piloting are needed for safety. Newly installed FAA Administrator Steve Dickson pledged … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreDive Boat Fire Investigators May See Lesson in Ghost Ship Tragedy Negligence Case
One was a ship in name only, an artist commune set up in an Oakland warehouse. The other was a bona fide boat afloat on the ocean off Santa Barbara. Both became fiery death traps for a combined 70 souls, … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreBoeing to Pay 737 MAX Crash Victims’ Families $144,500 Each
WASHINGTON — Boeing Co will pay the families of 346 people killed in two fatal 737 MAX crashes $144,500 each from a $50 million financial assistance fund announced in July, the fund’s administrators said on Monday. The fund, overseen by … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreBoeing Fund to Pay 737 MAX Crash Victims $145K Each
Boeing Co.’s $50 million financial assistance fund will pay the families of 346 people killed in two fatal 737 MAX crashes $144,500 each, the fund’s administrators said on Monday. The fund, which is overseen by Washington lawyers Ken Feinberg and … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreBus with Chinese-Speaking Tourists Crashes in Utah; 4 Dead
A tour bus crashed on a highway running through the red-rock landscape of southern Utah on Friday, killing four people from China and injuring dozens more. The bus from Southern California rolled onto a guard rail, crushing its roof and … Source: Claims Journal
Read MorePG&E Attacks Rival Plan for Paying Fire Victims Before Insurers
PG&E Corp. and a group of insurers urged a judge to reject a competing reorganization plan for the bankrupt utility because the proposal would pay fire victims who lost their homes ahead of insurance companies and “unjustly enrich” bondholders including … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreBoeing Max Crash Report Faces Pushback from Lion Air, Regulator
Lion Air and Indonesia’s civil aviation authority are pushing back on conclusions reached by investigators probing last year’s deadly crash of a Boeing Co. 737 Max amid concerns that too much blame is being placed on the Indonesian side, according … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreU.K. Launches Massive Tourist Airlift After Thomas Cook Collapse
The U.K. government deployed the “largest repatriation in peacetime history” to bring home more than 150,000 tourists stranded on overseas beaches and in vacation hotspots by the collapse of tour operator Thomas Cook Group Plc. The massive airlift, using chartered … Source: Claims Journal
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