The Delaware state Senate has unanimously approved legislation that would protect returning military personnel from rising car insurance premiums. Delaware Senator John Still says military service members insured by some companies have come home to much higher rates. The bill …
Twelve people have minor injuries after a bus driver fell asleep at the wheel and the vehicle veered off the road and turned onto its side about 40 miles north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The North Carolina Highway Patrol says …
Violent thunderstorms produced tornadoes, large hail and heavy rains over west and north Texas on April 23 causing a considerable amount of damage. The worst losses appear to have occurred where the storm clouds began forming just north of Lamesa …
A Louisiana state senator pleaded not guilty to charges of helping a convicted felon launder money to conceal her operation of an illegal insurance business. Sen. Derrick Shepherd, 38, a lawyer from a New Orleans suburb, made his first court …
Two weeks after a 5.2 level earthquake rocked the Midwest from Cairo to Atlanta, geologists and the industry are still discussing the impact of the quake–such as increases in the purchase of earthquake insurance. Earthquake endorsement State Farm insurance spokeswoman …
A federal appeals court in Denver overturned a discrimination verdict that two lesbian former school administrators won against a Sheridan County school district in 2006. A panel of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Kathleen Milligan-Hitt and Kathryn …
U.S. Forest Service firefighters have the discretion to determine the best way to fight fires and cannot be sued for negligence for setting a backfire in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana in 2000 to try to stop an advancing blaze, …
An attorney wants sanctions against Mississippi tort lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs over alleged misconduct in a legal battle over millions of dollars in attorneys fees. Investigators have been looking into allegations that Scruggs improperly influenced Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby …
A Safeco Corp. spokesman said the Seattle Mariners’ home field will continue to be called Safeco Field despite Liberty Mutual Group’s agreement to buy Seattle-based Safeco. Safeco spokesman Dave Monfried says the insurance company will maintain a significant presence in …
Scientists are discussing two more ways Western Washington could shake, rattle and roll. The U.S. Geological Survey’s new seismic hazard maps, released this week, show two more earthquake faults in Western Washington: one near the Canadian border, the other east …