1.
Drones over U.S. may pose security risks
NEW YORK, March 22 (UPI) -- A survey of corporate lawyers and executives Monday ranked Delaware first and West Virginia last when it comes to the best business climate.
Delaware has ranked first in the Harris survey for last seven years and West Virginia has placed last for four years, Legal Newsline online reported.
North Dakota, Nebraska, Indiana and Iowa also ranked high in a survey, while
California, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana ranked near the bottom.
The poll of 1,482 business lawyers and executives was taken from October to January and commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which owns Legal Newsline.
Those surveyed were asked to rank how states treat tort, contract and class action litigation and about judges' competence and the fairness of juries in the state.
More than two-thirds of the respondents said a state's legal environment is a key factor in determining where their companies expand or relocate.
The survey had a margin of error of 2.5 percentage points.
| Additional Business News Stories | |
CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 10 (UPI) --
Any suggestion that Venezuela would privatize the country's oil sector by selling parts of the state-run oil company is unpatriotic, a minister said.
|
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 10 (UPI) --
The last three of 18 new and upgraded F-16 fighter jets from the United States arrived in Pakistan, a report by the Indo-Asian News Service said.
|
With rental vacancy rates at their lowest levels in 10 years, a review of TransUnion's proprietary rental screening database found that rental prices remained about the same between the fourth quarters of 2010 and 2011....
|
Government officials are on the verge of an agreement worth as much as $26 billion with five major banks, capping a yearlong push to settle federal and state probes of alleged foreclosure abuses by lenders.
|
| Stories | Photos | People | Comments |
View Caption
