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An employer’s reliance on workers’ compensation and its failure to inform an injured employee of her rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) doom its summary judgment claim, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, allowing the case to proceed to trial. The employer, a housekeeping firm that contracted cleaning services to…
The U.S. health regulator on Tuesday declined to approve Provention Bio Inc’s experimental diabetes drug, citing insufficient data, sending the company’s shares down about 28 percent. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said a study in healthy volunteers failed to show that the drug is comparable to its older version used in the clinical trials….
Employers are grappling with when supervisors can be told about employees’ vaccination status and whether workers can wear badges indicating they’ve been vaccinated. The answer is complicated by the fact that vaccination status is considered confidential medical information, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Mandatory badge requirements on vaccination status should be avoided,…
Today’s leaders struggle to derive actionable insights from their data. What they need is a claims partner with analytical expertise that will take the time to review findings, compare results, benchmark trends and make recommendations. According to Big Data statistics compiled by Forbes, “the amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed in the world…
Predictions are in, and the 2021 hurricane season is looming large. Property owners must seek out an insurance partner that can help manage the storm, but also be there long after the winds die down. Hurricane risk continues to grow in both the number of named storms and in the volatility of an individual event….
LONDON—The $8.7 billion bid battle for Britain’s Morrisons intensified on Monday when a third private equity group entered the fray, sending the supermarket group’s share price racing ahead of the value of an offer it recommended on Saturday. New York-headquartered Apollo Global Management, which last year missed out on buying Morrisons rival Asda, said it…
Article by Entrepreneur Staff The American billionaire Warren Buffett, known as the ‘Oracle of Omaha’, is sure that in the future a new pandemic will come that could be worse than that of COVID-19 , because despite the lessons that this experience has left us, people would not be prepared to face it either. It may…
LONDON—Morrisons has agreed to a takeover led by SoftBank owned Fortress Investment Group that values Britain’s fourth-largest supermarket chain at £6.3 billion ($8.7 billion) and tops a rival offer from a U.S. private equity firm. The offer from Fortress, along with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Koch Real Estate Investments, exceeds a £5.52 billion…
Predictions are in, and the 2021 hurricane season is looming large. Property owners must seek out an insurance partner that can help manage the storm, but also be there long after the winds die down. Hurricane risk continues to grow in both the number of named storms and in the volatility of an individual event….
