Maine officials say a Clinton man who was convicted last week of drunken driving has the dubious distinction of being the state’s worst OUI offender. Fifty-seven-year-old Daniel Dumont was convicted in Waterville District Court for being drunk when he was …
Search dogs sniffed the rubble. Rescuers aimed thermal-imaging cameras and listening devices into crevices. Some pulled at bricks with their gloved hands. Crews worked through the night and into the morning Sunday, sifting mounds of debris in search of survivors …
The father of a two-year-old boy killed in a car accident caused by a drunken off-duty police officer plans to sue Madison Square Garden. An attorney for Carlos Zelaya says the arena served alcohol to Kevin Freibott even though he …
A fire early Saturday at a boat repair and storage yard along the Piscataqua River in Eliot, Maine destroyed a building containing several boats and the company’s office. No injuries were reported in the blaze at Patten’s Yacht Yard. Firefighters …
State agencies are updating Virginia’s hurricane evacuation plan based on the preliminary findings of a federal study that paints a “worst-case scenario.” The study by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began in 2000. It found that more people than …
A special report from Fitch Ratings – “Insurance Industry in El Salvador: Financial Profile Continues to Improve” – concludes that the country’s “insurance industry will continue to improve in 2008, after showing a stronger financial profile in 2007, in terms …
Max Specialty Insurance Company, of Richmond, Virginia, the U.S. excess and surplus lines unit of the Bermuda-based Max Capital Group Ltd., announced that it has agreed to acquire a U.S.-based admitted insurance company licensed to write business in all fifty …
The insurance affiliate of the Automobile Club of Southern California (the Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club) will issue $22.5 million in refunds to approximately 120,000 policyholders to resolve lawsuits brought by The Proposition 103 Enforcement Project, a project of …
A Colorado House committee delayed action on a bill that would increase the amount juries can award in some medical malpractice suits after doctors warned it could force them to stop practicing and make health care more expensive. Democrats said …
The Toronto Raptors filed a statement of claim against the Spanish Basketball Federation for nonpayment of insurance related to player Jorge Garbajosa’s injury. Garbajosa underwent more surgery on his left leg and ankle on Dec. 11 in Baltimore. The 6-foot-9 …