New Jersey drivers may soon be posing for unwanted portraits. The Legislature this week voted to allow municipalities to install cameras to catch drivers disobeying traffic signals. The bill needs Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s signature to become law. The Assembly …
Kentucky is reporting the nation’s first mine death of 2008. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration says an eastern Kentucky coal truck driver died Tuesday at Blue Ridge surface mine in Perry County. The mine is operated by the …
Federal inspectors found three alleged health and safety violations at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center near Martinsburg, W. Va., including two deemed serious. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration issued a notice of unsafe and unhealthful working conditions on Dec. …
For the second time, a U.S. judge approved a settlement this week among Holocaust victims, their heirs and an Italian insurer, turning aside objections from a few victims who believe the company is getting off easy. Saying the settlement was …
The American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co. Inc. (AISLIC) has agreed to pay $42.5 million to clean up contamination at four industrial facilities run by a bankrupt insured in a suit in which the Department of Justice intervened on behalf …
Pittsfield, Maine is one of four towns under consideration by a North Carolina company for a new call center that could employ up to 200 people. Global Contact Services, which runs 11 call centers in six states, is holding a …
Fire investigators are blaming an electrical problem for a fire that killed six horses in a western Kentucky barn last week. Baskett, Ky., fire chief Bill Shaw says state and federal investigators found that a shorted out extension cord ignited …
Sean Walsh returned to his mother’s San Diego home after the October wildfires to find it charred to its foundation. He says he plans to help her rebuild the trilevel, five-bedroom abode — happily used to host 19 grandkids — …
The Association of British Insurers has announced that its members – who constitute most of the UK’s insurance industry – “will pay more claims for Critical Illness, Income Protection and life insurance where medical information has not been disclosed, unless …
Asbestos related claims have been an albatross around the neck of the insurance industry for over 20 years. They almost caused Lloyd’s to collapse in the 1990’s. However, there now appears to be some new hope on the horizon that …