The National Transportation Safety Board’s leader attempted Tuesday to dispel concerns that the panel’s stance against a public hearing on the Interstate 35W bridge collapse was due to a power struggle with Minnesota highway officials. NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker said …
A federal jury has awarded the mayor of a small North Dakota town more than $2 million in a lawsuit over an insurance company’s failure to pay a claim after a fire. Timothy and Sylvia Moore sued American Family Insurance …
New York-based Valiant Insurance Group Inc. has hired James E. Bradley as vice president in charge of Valiant’s Lawyer’s Professional Liability Insurance program for small-size firms. Bradley, who will be based in Albany, formerly served as vice president with Aon …
Stating that the flood exclusion in an insurance policy sold by Lafayette Insurance Company to a New Orleans area policyholder is unambiguous, the Louisiana Supreme Court has reversed, in part, a previous ruling by a state appeals court in a …
Traffic crashes have increased on U.S. 550 since the state embarked on a $345 million project 10 years ago to widen the highway from two lanes to four between San Ysidro and Bloomfield in New Mexico. The project, started by …
State lawmakers have decided that first responders who suffer mental illness after witnessing a violent act should be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits, but other employees should not. Police officers, firefighters and other emergency workers are covered under the watered-down …
The city of Markham, Ill. must pay $400,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit that alleged officials tried to block the opening of a group home for developmentally disabled men. St. Coletta’s of Illinois is a non-profit operator of group homes …
A lawyer for one of two elderly women accused of killing two transient men for insurance money told jurors that his client’s daughter ran over one victim and the mother had nothing to do with it. “Who murdered (Kenneth) McDavid?” …
3M Co. will probably pay between $50 million and $56 million to clean up sites in the eastern Twin Cities that have been contaminated by chemicals that were once used in some of the company’s best-known products. The plans for …
A federal judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit against a Wyoming soda ash company over alleged cuts in workers’ pension benefits. U.S. Judge Alan Johnson of Cheyenne in February authorized the class-action lawsuit against Solvay Chemicals, Inc., one of southwest …