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☆ ‘It Was Pretty Miserable’: Planning a Wedding Amid Climate Change
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Britta Lokting | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

When Coy Boggler and Annie Wall started planning their intimate backyard wedding in Phoenix earlier this year, they didn’t know that by July, a record-breaking heat wave would settle over the city for 31 straight days. Mr. Boggler, 47, and Ms. Wall, 41, had rented a tent to keep their guests cool and decided to test it out with three air-conditioning units running, but the temperature inside the tent wouldn’t dip below 93 degrees. “It was pretty miserable,” said Mr. Boggler, a firefighter and paramedic in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The couple were at a loss for what to do when they ran into Chuck Montgomery, a retired deputy fire chief of Glendale, Ariz., and an acquaintance. Mr. Montgomery invited them to move the ceremony to the Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting in Phoenix, where Mr. Montgomery is the executive director.

Persons: Coy Boggler, Annie Wall, Boggler, Wall, ”, Chuck Montgomery, Montgomery Organizations: of Flame Museum Locations: Phoenix, Glendale, Ariz

☆ Lawyer Up: Class-Action Suits Are Thriving in New York
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Britta Lokting | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“It’s a way of characterizing a litigation,” she said, adding that big companies are not the innocents they sometimes claim to be in court. If suits are being settled, she explained, then that suggests the defendants think they have merit: “Otherwise, why would they be so quick to settle?”But consumer class-action work has its detractors. “These lawsuits are entirely lawyer-driven,” said Tom Stebbins, the executive director of the Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York. (In 2018, a civil rights class-action suit against The New York Times was settled over a “lack of closed captioning” in a news video, according to the complaint. The plaintiff was represented by Lee Litigation Group.)

☆ Kia and Hyundai Thefts Are Soaring — and It's TikTok's Fault
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Britta Lokting | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Lebeau-Chorn and Jenkins are just two victims of an unprecedented surge in car thefts that has swept across US cities in the past two years. The situation has become so critical that two major auto-insurance companies, State Farm and Progressive, have stopped insuring vulnerable Kia and Hyundai models. Safety shortcutsThe TikTok video that sparked the challenge — a how-to reportedly created by user @robbierayyy — exposed a security flaw in Kia models from 2011 to 2021 and Hyundai models from 2015 to 2021. All Kia vehicles are subject to and comply fully with rigorous testing rules and regulations outlined in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards." In Illinois last month, three 13-year-olds were arrested after being seen in a stolen Kia that hit and killed a 71-year-old man.

☆ Remote Workers Are Blowing the Whistle, Employees Exposing Companies
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Britta Lokting | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

The Securities and Exchange Commission — which implemented a whistleblower program in 2011 and where Haugen and others have sent documents — has received a historic jump in complaints over the past few years. How remote work sparked a flood of whistleblowersAs the pandemic spread and workers retreated to their makeshift home offices, employees began to reconsider their relationship with work. MacGann, the Uber whistleblower, told Politico that it wasn't until the pandemic that he "had time on his hands" to really ponder his decision to come forward about the ride-hailing company's treatment of workers. Remote work, she explained, helps to remove some of those barriers to whistleblowing. In addition to the record-breaking number of tips, the SEC whistleblowing program awarded $229 million in 103 cases this year.

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