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What the 9/11 Lawsuits Can Teach Us About Arizona’s New English-Only Law

Apr 24 2018 // On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, a conspiracy of 19 men hijacked four planes departing from three different cities. The two planes that departed from Boston were flown, with 17 minutes of one another, into the two towers...

SBA Loans Made Available in New Mexico, Arizona for Drought Economic Injury

Apr 23 2018 // The Small Business Administration says disaster loans are available to small nonfarm businesses in 13 counties in New Mexico and one in Arizona to offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in two...

MJ Insurance Names Aon’s Zentgraf Director of Analytics in Arizona

Apr 11 2018 // MJ Insurance has named Dan Zentgraf director of analytics of the Phoenix, Ariz. office. Zentgraf will oversee the development of the analytics program to help extrapolate and interpret biometric data. Zentgraf previously...

CopperPoint in Arizona Names Kuhn Regional President of PacificComp

Apr 10 2018 // Phoenix, Ariz.-based CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Co. has named David Kuhn regional president of PacificComp, a subsidiary of CopperPoint, and executive vice president of enterprise distribution for the CopperPoint family...

Arizona Governor OKs Bill Preventing Over-Prescribing of Opioids

Apr 2 2018 // Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has approved legislation that will protect injured workers from being over-prescribed addictive opioids and help control escalating medical costs in the workers’ compensation system,...

Human Influence Makes Autonomous Vehicle Programming Unsafe: Professor

Mar 29 2018 // The way autonomous vehicles are currently being programmed may not be safe because the programs are copying humans, according to a computer professor in the state where the first pedestrian fatality occurred n a collision...

Uber Won’t Renew Autonomous-Vehicle License for California

Mar 28 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc. won’t renew a license to operate self-driving cars in California while the company evaluates how one of its vehicles killed a pedestrian in Arizona last week.The San Francisco-based company...

Arizona Governor Halts Uber’s Self-Driving Car Testing

Mar 27 2018 // The governor of Arizona has suspended Uber’s ability to test self-driving cars on public roads in the state following a fatal crash last week that killed a 49-year-old pedestrian.The decision to block Uber...

After Uber Crash, Florida Still Welcomes Free-Range Robot Cars

Mar 26 2018 // Florida has been trying to lure self-driving cars to the state for testing on public roads, shaping laws that are much more lax than places like California and New York. The fatal accident last week in Arizona, another...

Daughter of Pedestrian Killed by Uber Driverless Car Hires Lawyer

Mar 22 2018 // The daughter of the woman killed by an Uber self-driving vehicle in Arizona has retained a personal injury lawyer, underlying the potential high stakes of the first fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle.The law firm of...

Police Release Video of Fatal Collision of Uber Driverless Vehicle with Pedestrian

Mar 22 2018 // Police in Arizona on Wednesday released a short video of a fatal collision between an Uber self-driving vehicle and a pedestrian, as investigators probe the accident that has put new focus on the safety of autonomous...

Driving in Snow: Difficult for Humans and Driverless Cars

Mar 22 2018 // A Canadian town known for its annual theater festival is emerging as a hub of “snowtonomous” research, as automakers face demands to produce self-driving cars that can perform in snow and sleet.But testing...

Arizona Sees No Need to Tighten Rules on Self-Driving Cars After Uber Fatality

Mar 21 2018 // Arizona officials said on Tuesday they saw no immediate need to tighten rules on the testing of self-driving cars in the state in reaction to a fatal accident involving an Uber autonomous vehicle that has focused attention...

Liability and Legal Questions Follow Uber Autonomous Car Fatal Accident

Mar 20 2018 // The death of a pedestrian hit by a self-driving Uber vehicle in Arizona this week could offer a test of who can be held legally responsible for accidents when a human is no longer at the wheel, legal experts said.Any...

Arizona Became Autonomous Hotbed Prior to Uber’s Deadly Crash

Mar 20 2018 // The technology behind autonomous vehicles has originated from coders in Silicon Valley, engineers in Detroit and academic researchers in Pittsburgh. Much of it eventually lands on the streets of Arizona, a state...

Driverless Vehicle Makers Reach Feared Crossroad with Uber Fatality

Mar 20 2018 // Last week, Waymo showed a video of people riding in its self-driving minivans. They thumbed their phones, yawned and one snoozed. The message: Driverless cars are so safe, they’re boring. The clip was meant to drum...

Uber Halts Road Tests After Autonomous Car Hits, Kills Pedestrian in Arizona

Mar 19 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc. halted autonomous vehicle tests after one of its cars struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, in what is likely the first pedestrian fatality involving the technology.The woman was crossing the...

12 Arizona Counties Re-Designated Natural Disaster Areas

Mar 19 2018 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the re-designation of 12 Arizona counties as primary natural disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by recent drought. The Mohave Valley Daily News reported farmers in...

MJ Insurance Names Evans Employee Benefits Consultant in Arizona

Mar 5 2018 // MJ Insurance has named Sean Evans an employee benefits consultant in its Phoenix, Ariz. office. Evans previously was a franchise owner and operator of Jimmy Johns – Cali Subs LLC in Santa Barbara, Calif. Indianapolis,...

First Lawsuit Filed in Arizona Helicopter Tour Crash

Mar 5 2018 // The parents of a British tourist who died after the Grand Canyon sightseeing helicopter he was in crashed filed the first wrongful death lawsuit related to last month’s crash.The complaint filed in Clark County...