Torrential rains pelted central Vermont on Wednesday, triggering flash flooding that washed out roads and inundated the city of Barre, where water ran up to 6 feet deep for a time. Between 3 and 4 inches fell in the area …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ‘A-‘ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Oil Insurance Ltd. (OIL) and removed them from CreditWatch with negative implications, where they were placed on April 23, 2007. The outlook is negative. …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Germany’s Allianz SE (AZSE) and various core operating entities to ‘AA’ from ‘AA-‘. S&P added that as a consequence of the upgrade on …
The names and Social Security numbers of a half million more taxpayers were on a computer storage device stolen from a state intern last month, more than tripling the number previously reported, Gov. Ted Strickland said this week. Information on …
The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether cancer-causing radioactive material was buried in the 1980s near a rifle range at Camp Lejeune, N.C., the Marine Corps’ primary base on the Atlantic Ocean. A recently recovered Navy document dated 1981 said …
Climate change caused by manmade pollutants could have a devastating impact on the country’s national parks, a park advocacy group said Wednesday in a report highlighting the potential damage to Tennessee’s and North Carolina’s Great Smoky Mountains. The report, “Unnatural …
Phone and Internet provider FiberNet expected service to be restored to most of its customers Wednesday following a blackout that affected up to 20,000 homes, businesses and emergency providers across West Virginia. Employees of the Charleston-based fiber-optic company have been …
Nissan is recalling more than 140,000 of its popular Altima sedans to replace air filters that could catch fire, company officials said. The voluntary recall affects 2007 Altimas with four-cylinder, 2.5-liter engines produced between September 2006 and May 2007 at …
The Hawaii Legislature has failed to override Gov. Linda Lingle’s vetoes of two workers’ compensation bills. A two-thirds majority vote was required in both the House and Senate to override the vetoes. Both bills failed the receive the required votes …
The Western Insurance Agents Association (WIAA), an agent/broker associations in the West, has announced a new slate of board members and officers for the 2007-2008 term. The previous term’s Chairman-elect, Kathy McDonald of Henderson, Nev.-based Watkin Insurance Group, is assuming …