So many lawsuits have been filed against insurers in the U.S. that a Thursday hearing has been scheduled before a federal judicial panel in Washington to decide how to manage them all in the months—and possibly years—ahead.
The executive council of the 1.7 million-member American Federation of Teachers approved a resolution Friday giving AFT affiliates across the country authorization to stage strikes.
Despite the upheaval and uncertainty the pandemic has created for legal education, law school admissions officers say this fall’s first-year law class will likely be the same size, if not bigger, than the class that started in fall 2019.
The president of the Transportation Trades Department, a coalition of 33 unions, wrote in the petition that the government needed to set clear rules for the use of masks to protect workers and passengers from the coronavirus.
Indiana’s health department on Tuesday also reported 9,079 new COVID-19 tests, the seventh time in eight days when daily testing has exceeded 9,000.
The extension of seven emergency lending programs through the end of the year is an acknowledgement that the programs might be necessary for longer than was first thought as the nation struggles to control the coronavirus.
The company said it plans to hire 150 sales agents who will work from home during the pandemic, just like the firm’s existing local workforce of 190.
The White House and Senate Republican plan calls for around $1 trillion in new spending, while the House Democrats have coalesced around a $3 trillion plan they passed in May.
The university was set to host the inaugural contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on Sept. 29.
That makes parent company, Alphabet, the first major U.S. company to push its comeback into the second half of next year.
Senate Republicans want to reduce the $600 extra payment to $200 until states can implement a new approach that would pay the unemployed 70% of the income they collected before they lost their jobs.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Monday reported 561 new COVID-19 cases. It’s the first time in two weeks that the state hasn’t reported at least 600 new daily cases.
The companies say that they can’t rehire many people because they can’t fully reopen properties. But their decisions to withhold the money from payroll have left employees to rely on government unemployment checks.
The Commerce Department said Monday that the June gain in durable goods orders, which was better than expected, followed an even bigger 15.1% increase in May.
The move, announced Monday, come as retailers are rethinking Black Friday in-store bargain shopping as they try to curb the spread of the coronavirus, which has seen a resurgence in a slew of states.
The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the U.S. government—one of several candidates in the global vaccine race.
If talks on ending the dispute fail, the world could face downward pressure on trade at a time when the global economy is already reeling from the pandemic.
The economic outlook of U.S. business economists has improved over the past three months, though their sunnier view may be jeopardized by the resurgence of the coronavirus.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said extending an expiring unemployment benefit—but reducing it substantially—was a top priority.
The state has reported more than 700 new COVID-19 cases daily for six straight days and more than 600 cases daily for the past 13 days.
