The owners of a Charleston furniture store that burned down and killed nine firefighters agreed to pay $13,110 in fines but they admitted no wrongdoing, state regulators announced last week. The Sofa Super Store was initially fined $32,775 for three …
Baldwin County authorities said a 9-year-old boy has admitted to setting a fire on New Year’s Eve that destroyed his great-grandmother’s 100-year-old home in Marlow, Ala. Gib Hixon, chief of the Fish River-Marlow Volunteer Fire Department, said state fire investigators …
Police have arrested two Talbotton, Ga., firefighters on arson charges in connection with two separate blazes in the west Georgia town. Sheriff Bill Johnson says 30-year-old Jeff Scott Nelson and 32-year-old Norman Cable are believed to be responsible for fires …
Five Pensacola, Fla., juveniles are facing arson and burglary charges following an investigation into a fire that destroyed a commercial building on January 3. No injuries were reported. The juveniles ranging in age from 8 to 13, allegedly destroyed Markham …
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Internal Revenue Service records, including taxpayer information, are vulnerable to tampering or disclosure because it has not yet fixed dozens of information security weaknesses, according to a government report. The existing problems, the congressional Government Accountability Office said, included giving …
A.M. Best Co. has revised the rating outlook to negative from stable for the debt rating of “aaa” on $130 million of Series A floating rate senior secured notes, due 2036 (notes) issued by Tailwind Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited …
The family of 4-year-old Isabelle Norton seeks more than $8.5 million from the company that manufactured the riding mower that backed over her leg, causing it to be amputated. Norton’s father, Kirk, was mowing the lawn at the family’s Springfield, …
The California Department of Insurance announced that since the wildfires broke out in Southern California in October 2007, 37,117 claims have been filed, and 1,531 of those claims are known to be total losses, with an estimated exposure for insurers …
Nineteen insurance fraud cases were adjudicated in Maryland in the last three months of 2007, resulting in nearly $450,000 in restitution ordered paid, the state’s Insurance Administration said. The prosecutions were brought through a cooperative effort between the administration’s insurance …