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A retired San Jose Police officer who owns a security business pleaded no contest to insurance fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, and worker exploitation and is expected to be sentenced to three years in jail, prosecutors said Friday. Robert Foster, … Source: Claims Journal

The Biden administration on Tuesday unveiled a 10-year plan to treat and maintain millions of additional acres of forests in the western United States to reduce the severity of seasonal wildfires. “We’re not going to stop fires,” U.S. Agriculture Secretary … Source: Claims Journal

Two owners of an Omaha company were sentenced Friday to federal prison for knowingly violating worker safety standards, leading to an explosion that killed two workers. Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services; Steven Michael Braithwaite, president and owner of the business; and … Source: Claims Journal

Severe weather events in Canada caused insured losses of C$2.1 billion ($1.68 billion) last year, making 2021 the sixth-costliest since 1983, the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) said in a statement on Tuesday. Floods in British Columbia in November, where … Source: Claims Journal

A dramatic fire near a chemical plant burned through the night and into Saturday in northern New Jersey but led to no evacuation orders or serious injuries — just heavy smoke that was seen and smelled in nearby New York … Source: Claims Journal

Johnson & Johnson should know by the end of next month whether its controversial use of bankruptcy to try to resolve billions of dollars in cancer claims can proceed, or if the consumer products giant must fight roughly 38,000 lawsuits … Source: Claims Journal

Johnson & Johnson on Friday said it had agreed to pay $44 million to resolve claims that it fueled the opioid epidemic in New Mexico, a state which originally opted against participating in a nationwide settlement resolving thousands of similar … Source: Claims Journal

Insurers that are inclined to skip a government review of proposed workers’ compensation settlements may think twice about that strategy because of an updated policy guideline issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Jan. 11. For the … Source: Claims Journal

Survivors of a Bronx apartment building fire that killed 17 people last week have already filed a lawsuit, charging that the landlords knew of defective and unsafe conditions in high-rise building. Rosa Reyes and Felix Martinez allege in the class-action … Source: Claims Journal

When the superintendent of Albuquerque Public Schools announced earlier this week a cyber attack would lead to the cancellation of classes for around 75,000 students, he noted that the district’s technology department had been fending off attacks “for the last … Source: Claims Journal