When medical marijuana became available this month in New York, Brittany Barger was one of the first patients to navigate the state’s rules and make it through a dispensary door. “When you’re as sick as I am, you’ll try anything,” … Source: Claims Journal

Picture this: as an insurance adjuster a new claim lands on your desk. When you travel to the affluent home of the insured, you quickly realize that there are going to be some highly valuable items that need to be … Source: Claims Journal

A Palm Springs, Calif., couple found themselves in a typical catch-22 situation – unexpectedly unemployed, unable to afford a car, but without reliable transportation, facing limited employment opportunities. Thanks to a unique car donation program fueled by insurance companies, repairers … Source: Claims Journal

Employees at Eli Lilly and Co.’s corporate headquarters need not hoof it to the nearest watering hole if they want to unwind with a beer after work. The pharmaceutical giant boasts its own bar and restaurant on its downtown campus, … Source: Claims Journal

Los Angeles landlords and tenants must equally share the costs of earthquake retrofitting, under a deal approved by the City Council. The agreement that passed unanimously Wednesday allows building owners to pass half the retrofit costs to tenants through rent … Source: Claims Journal

More farmers in drought-stricken California are using oilfield wastewater to irrigate, and a new panel on Tuesday began taking one of the state’s deepest looks yet at the safety of using the chemical-laced water on food crops. In the fourth … Source: Claims Journal

Inadequate safety policies and procedures were primarily to blame for a mining accident that killed a 26-year-old Idaho man operating a 20-ton mobile drill in an underground tunnel at a Nevada gold mine last summer, federal safety investigators have concluded. … Source: Claims Journal

A San Francisco woman faces up to two years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines after pleading guilty to a federal charge that she didn’t tell Louisiana regulators about asbestos in the Mississippi Queen steamboat before … Source: Claims Journal

A state Senate committee unanimously approved a bipartisan bill Wednesday to dramatically increase the payout for people wrongly convicted of crimes in Wisconsin. Such payouts are now capped at $5,000 for year spent behind bars, with a maximum of $25,000. … Source: Claims Journal

An analysis of data from the Department of Transportation done by the American Trucking Associations shows over both the long- and short-term that the rate of truck-involved fatalities is declining. “America’s trucking industry has invested billions to improve safety and … Source: Claims Journal