Rhode Island’s public transit authority has paid out $5.5 million in the last seven fiscal years to settle injury claims, according to records provided by the agency. The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority two years ago dropped its liability coverage …
Allstate Corp., the nation’s No. 2 property and casualty insurer, said Wednesday its second-quarter profits climbed 16 percent on strong auto insurance sales but operating income fell as the company paid significantly more in catastrophe-related costs. The results fell short …
Policyholders who settled Hurricane Katrina lawsuits confidentially with insurance companies can keep those payments, along with federal grants for structural damage other homeowners were ineligible to receive or must repay. A federal grant modification that created the situation has gone …
The wind-driven inferno that swept through a South Lake Tahoe subdivision last month and destroyed more than 250 homes is evidence that state fire officials must become more involved in local planning decisions, California’s top fire official said. As more …
California firefighters have been working to stop a 28,346-acre wildfire from spreading in rugged Central Coast wilderness and posing a threat to rural homes, while rain aided the battle against an 8,250-acre forest fire near the Oregon border. Authorities were …
California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that CDI Urban Auto Theft Task Force investigators arrested two suspects on charges of arson of property, falsely reporting a crime and filing fraudulent insurance claims. Jose Tinoco, 33, of Sacramento, Calif., was arrested …
Federal officials have offered to buy dozens of homes built near a Superfund site in Pensacola, Fla., but only a handful of families have taken offers. The six families that have agreed to sell their homes are among 55 living …
Failing to perform a pre-shift examination at a West Virginia coal mine is going to cost a Massey Energy Co. subsidiary $50,000. U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver Jr. fined Richmond, Va.-based Massey’s White Buck Coal Co. that amount Wednesday …
Connecticut will get $23 million in federal homeland security grants this year, an increase of about $10 million from a year ago largely because of new funding for police, fire and medical emergency radios, officials said Wednesday. The new funding …
New York City fire and emergency crews responded to the scene of a suspected steam explosion near Grand Central Station in Manhattan on Wednesday during the evening rush hour, officials said. The New York Police Department said a steam pipe …