Motorcycle fatalities in South Carolina increased in 2007 compared with previous years. There were 120 deaths last year compared with 106 fatalities the previous year and 94 deaths in 2005. Safety officials say there are several reasons for more deaths …
Cherry Hill, N.J.-based Commerce Bancorp Inc. said it has completed the sale of its insurance brokerage business, Commerce Insurance Services, to a private group led by two of the brokerage’s key executives. The sale was first announced in October in …
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) this month issued a fact sheet on the application of federal anti-discrimination laws to employer tests and other selection procedures to screen applicants for hire and employees for promotion. The new technical assistance …
State and local authorities are investigating an apparent burglary and arson that left an Albany, Ga., church heavily damaged. The fire was reported about 7:30 a.m. Monday at Metropolitan Baptist Church. The Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner’s office says …
Specialist insurer Hiscox Plc has issued a stark warning to UK companies of their exposures to increased liabilities when the UK’s Corporate Manslaughter Act comes into force on April 6, 2008. The legislation had been the subject of heated parliamentary …
The start of a new year often brings jokes about crystal balls, but with the arrival of 2008, many investors are ruefully saying they don’t need fortunetelling gimmicks – they know that the problems that made 2007 painful and turbulent …
At least four West Virginia University fraternities still can’t move back into the houses they were evicted from last spring. Houses for Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Delta Theta, Pi Kappa Phi and Phi Sigma Kappa were condemned in May for …
Fewer people dead, injured in fires in Philadelphia in 2006 The number of people who died in fires in Philadelphia was down last year. The Philadelphia Fire Department has released the city’s fire statistics for 2007. Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers …
A Pittsburgh-area water authority will have to pay for all road damage caused by breaks in its lines and reimburse the state for past problems. The state Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. PennDOT …
A building housing the water-sewer department in Lafayette, Ga., was heavily damaged and years worth of records were destroyed when teens broke in and set it on fire early on New Year’s Day, authorities said. Glenn Allen, a spokesman for …