To improve the quality, speed, and accountability of federal disaster support to state and local partners, the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued “Recovery Strategies” addressing two key areas of disaster operations. The “Mass Sheltering and …
Parts of coastal Louisiana have remained stable 30 to 50 feet underground for the past 8,000 years with little or no subsidence, a Tulane University researcher writes in a study that contradicts some other recent findings. That means Louisiana, though …
Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro moved to intervene in the case against the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma’s claim for lands in Ohio. In May 2005, the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma filed this suit claiming that it retained hunting …
The family of a Columbus, Ohio girl, now five years old, whose brain was damaged as doctors prepared her for surgery was awarded more than $17.8 million in one of Ohio’s largest medical-malpractice awards. The settlement money is to cover …
Rhode Islanders whose homes are contaminated with toxic waste can now apply for low-interest loans from the state government under a bill signed by Gov. Don Carcieri. The signing ceremony was held in a Tiverton neighborhood where landfill beneath a …
After a yearlong investigation, the owner of the runaway dump truck that slammed into a group of cars at the bottom of Avon Mountain in Connecticut a year ago has been charged with manslaughter. David Wilcox, 71, who ran American …
The Delaware General Assembly concluded its 143rd legislative session late on June 30, 2006 without addressing comprehensive reform of the workers’ compensation system. But the Assembly did maintain an exemption for property-casualty insurers in the security freeze legislation (SB 109) …
“It was like Armageddon,” independent agent Pam Sakowski says of the hailstorm that hammered Exeter, New Hampshire, on July 11. Sakowski, who owns the Ray F. MacDonald Agency in Durham, was visiting her friends at Foy Insurance Group in Exeter, …
Many conservative methods used to treat work-related complaints of the upper body have only limited effectiveness, according to an updated systematic review by Arianne Verhagen, Ph.D., and her colleagues in the Netherlands. Exercise, however, emerged as “a very good thing …
Marshall & Swift / Boeckh has named Anthony (Tony) Hetchler as director of analytics, claims. He is located at MSB’s New Berlin, Wisc., offices. Hetchler will continue to manage the Analytics Account Management Group and will add responsibility for the …