Category: Risk Management

Over the past few weeks COVID-19 coronavirus has begun to spread globally, including documented cases in the United States. We understand you may have concerns about how the emerging situation may affect you and your workforce. Our human resources partner, HRWS, has provided an overview of important considerations for employers in addressing the unfolding situation. […]

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) clearinghouse of commercial driver’s license (CDL) holders’ drug and alcohol violations is now open. Employers must register to access the data repository established by the DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and to fulfill compliance obligations, which go into effect Jan. 6, 2020. Employers of CDL drivers, including […]

Time is running out for employers to familiarize themselves with new federal rules on overtime pay. Starting January 1, the threshold for who is entitled to overtime pay — and who is not — changes. It’s the first change since 2004. The new rule raises the income threshold that employees must reach to $684 per […]

More than 20 local governments in Texas were targeted in a coordinated ransomware attack of unprecedented size. The Texas Department of Information Resources said in a statement that it believes a single source is behind all 22 of the attacks. It didn’t name the affected cities or provide details about the attacker’s demands. The attack […]

In a case underscoring the potential financial havoc wreaked by data breaches, the 42-year-old parent company of American Medical Collection Agency has filed for bankruptcy just weeks after disclosing a data breach that affected its largest clients and millions of patients. In a Monday filing in a New York federal bankruptcy court, Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, which does […]

HOUSTON — At the public library in Wilmer, Texas, books were checked out not with the beeps of bar code readers but with the scratches of pen on notebook paper. Out on the street, police officers were literally writing tickets — by hand. When the entire computer network that keeps the small town’s bureaucracy afloat was […]