Posts by Y@DminG

U.S. regulators have increased training for the doctors who screen airline pilots so they can better spot mental health issues in the wake of last year’s suicide that killed 150 people on a Germanwings flight deliberately crashed in the French … Source: Claims Journal

The U.S. Supreme Court eased the way for larger damage awards when a company intentionally copies a patented invention. Voting unanimously, the justices said a key federal appeals court had placed overly rigid limits on the ability of trial judges … Source: Claims Journal

U.S. burger chain operator Wendy’s Co. said it had discovered additional instances of unusual credit card activity at some of its franchise-operated restaurants, widening the scope of an earlier cyber attack on the company. The company in January said it … Source: Claims Journal

Federal safety experts say errors by a Houston Ship Channel pilot likely caused the 2015 collision between two 600-foot vessels that led to a chemical spill. The Houston Chronicle reported Wednesday that the National Transportation Safety Board has urged Houston … Source: Claims Journal

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is too slow to order companies to recall tainted foods, leaving people at risk of illness and death, a government watchdog said in a review of the agency’s food safety program. The Department of … Source: Claims Journal

Gov. Greg Abbott asked for a federal disaster declaration Thursday for a dozen Texas counties inundated by flooding and other damage from recent storms, seeking money and low-interest loans so those places can rebuild. Abbott’s request to President Barack Obama … Source: Claims Journal

Prosecutors introduced a new theory as a murder trial started for a Baltimore, Md., police van driver charged in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man whose neck was broken in the back of the wagon. Not only … Source: Claims Journal

At least one broken bolt holding the rail in place caused the fiery derailment of a Union Pacific train moving volatile crude oil through the Columbia River Gorge on the Oregon-Washington border, railroad officials say. Union Pacific spokesman Justin Jacobs … Source: Claims Journal

When John Couch is certain a storm will hit Hatteras Island, he goes into action, moving merchandise in his auto parts store from bottom shelves to top ones and hauling away the most valuable items. But at 64 years old, … Source: Claims Journal

Media groups have asked a Philadelphia judge to unseal insurance documents that could address whether Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was told in the mid-1970s that his assistant was molesting boys. The media groups also asked the judge Thursday … Source: Claims Journal