The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT), the State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFMO), Travelers Insurance Company and First Alert have joined together to place smoke alarms into the homes of limited income and elderly residents in seven Texas cities, the ICT …
The 33 residents of the Holley Mountain Airpark in rural Van Buren County, Ark., enjoy a break on their home-insurance rates that most residents of cities around the state would envy: A Class 1 rating. That rating, the highest possible …
Whenever truck driver Cameron White exits U.S. 78 onto McCullough Boulevard in Tupelo, Miss., he feels fear in the pit of his stomach. White said the intersection is one of the most dangerous in the area. He holds his breath …
State Farm Insurance Co. does not have to pay to defend the Rev. Jeffery Stallworth of Jackson, Miss., from a civil lawsuit filed by a Maryland woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2001 in her home, a …
The owner of a Charleston, S.C. furniture store where nine firefighters died said he wished he had put sprinklers in the building. But Herb Goldstein said they were expensive and not required when he build the massive Sofa Super Store …
The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) will conduct a workshop to explain how it will implement newly enacted legislation that authorizes the award of enhanced damages against property and casualty insurance companies that fail to settle first party claims in good …
Cutting the grueling work hours of doctors-in-training had little effect on reducing patient deaths, according to two large studies. Death rates dropped in one group of patients in veterans’ hospitals but not in three other groups, the researchers reported. The …
About 30 percent of all locally owned bridges in Pennsylvania are considered structurally deficient. That’s according to new bridge safety rating information released by the state Transportation Department. It covers about 6,400 local bridges that measure 20 feet or longer. …
A federal judge in Chattanooga, Tenn. has granted class-action status to a lawsuit that contends Unum Group, the nation’s largest disability insurer, schemed to deny or terminate claims of thousands of disabled Americans. The suit contends Unum Group violated the …
Twelve people have been charged in Pennsylvania with insurance fraud in a 2004 casino bus crash that authorities allege was staged so the passengers could cash in by filing bogus injury claims. The crash occurred on April 18, 2004, when …