Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell has named Daniel Dilzer and David Schoolcraft to the state Workers’ Compensation Commission. Dilzer, 41, is a lawyer with the New Britain-based law firm Davila & Dilzer. He serves serves on the State of Connecticut’s …
With a bone-jarring jolt, Juanita and Leon Smith’s Volkswagen Beetle bottomed out rounding a corner on a rural two-lane road in Lincolnville, Maine, that seemed more appropriate for a horse-drawn wagon than their car. As oil poured out of the …
A six-person jury found the New Mexico Department of Transportation negligent in a crash that killed an Arizona man, saying the agency failed to make an icy stretch of Interstate 40 safe and should pay $3.55 million to the man’s …
The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to rehear a case from Jefferson County dealing with the scope of the state workers’ compensation law. The court has not yet set the date for new arguments but said April 5 it will …
With hurricane season approaching, military, state and local agencies tested their emergency readiness in New Orleans on April 5 and found what one official described as a need to keep practicing to ensure a higher level of comfort with the …
A Harlingen, Texas, insurance agent is accused in a federal indictment of providing cash, plane tickets and condo rentals to some Edcouch-Elsa school district officials in exchange for public contracts. Arnulfo Olivarez was named in a three-count federal indictment returned …
About one of every four vehicles on Oklahoma roads is uninsured despite efforts by lawmakers to target motorists who drive without insurance, state officials say. The state’s rate of uninsured motorists has remained steady in recent years, said Lonnie Jarman, …
The New York Insurance Association is criticizing the state legislature’s passage of the portion of the 2008 budget which hikes assessments on insurers by $40 million – a 20 percent increase over last year, the group said. The agency budgets …
A state court jury in Bridgeport, Connecticut has awarded more than $4 million to a doctor who was fired from a health care lab in Stratford after he complained that one of its tests could jeopardize patients’ health. The six …
Citigroup Inc. Friday confirmed it agreed to pay $33 million to about 2,500 current and former female brokers at its Smith Barney unit to settle a class-action gender discrimination lawsuit. The agreement also requires the largest U.S. bank to change …