Bruce Furness, who helped resolve some festering city personnel problems as mayor of Fargo, plans to start next week as the interim chief executive of North Dakota’s troubled workers compensation agency. The Workforce Safety and Insurance board of directors voted …
The federal bank, thrift, credit union, and Farm Credit System regulatory agencies today requested public comment on new and revised interagency questions and answers for lenders regarding flood insurance. The Interagency Questions and Answers Regarding Flood Insurance were first published …
Dozens of New Jersey doctors could soon be personally liable for settlement payouts now that state officials have declared insolvent what once was the state’s largest malpractice insurance company. The insurer, Medical Inter-Insurance Exchange, has been in bankruptcy for six …
Work crews are picking over hundreds of miles of coastal waters to clear old trees, sunken boats and other debris that have snagged fishermen’s nets and banged boats since hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries …
Displaced residents of a fire-damaged apartment building will be eligible for rent subsidies from the District. About 200 mostly low-income people were left homeless by the fire last week in the 3100 block of Mount Pleasant Street. Mayor Adrian Fenty …
Police in Richmond, N.H. are trying to figure out who stole thousands of dollars in fire department equipment from the fire house. Firefighters made the discovery when they arrived at a medical call. When they reached for medical bags, they …
Hannaford Bros. Co. has been hit with two class action lawsuits filed on behalf of consumers whose credit and debit card numbers were compromised as a result of a major security breach. A Philadelphia law firm, Berger & Montague, said …
When Kentucky coal miner, Charles Scott Howard, played an eye-catching videotape last year that showed barriers so cracked that water gushed through them, he prompted a federal investigation that led to citations against his employer. Barriers constructed to seal off …
Security Capital Assurance Ltd. said Thursday it severed seven credit guarantee contracts with a Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. unit because the investment bank had given key rights promised to SCA under the contracts to at least one other party. …
Reacting to Gulf Coast hurricanes and potential future storm losses, State Farm said it will limit coverage in Alabama for new policies in Mobile and Baldwin counties beginning April 1. State Farm, based in Bloomington, Ill., will no longer write …