The cost of auto injury claims involving lighter-weight vehicles tends to be higher than the cost of claims involving heavy vehicles, according to new research from the Insurance Research Council (IRC). The average claims payment involving lighter weight vehicles is …
A former Bucks County, Pa., chiropractor has been accused of fraudulently billing two insurance companies for more than $27,000 for treatments to patients who claimed to have been injured in staged bus accidents. Attorney General Tom Corbett identified the defendant …
The owner of a Georgetown, Kentucky, roofing company has been arraigned in Montgomery District Court on charges that he provided fake certificates of workers’ compensation insurance coverage to potential clients. Kendall Hampton, owner of Hampton Roofing, allegedly gave the fake …
A 2008 filing most insurance carriers will use to develop rates for workers’ compensation coverage shows the third straight decrease in loss costs, Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark announced. The loss cost figures show an average reduction of 5.1 percent …
An 8,000 acre wildfire was burning on Bureau of Land Management land where there are 30 gas wells. The Mayberry fire, about 32 miles northwest of Craig in northwestern Colorado, is one of at least 24 new fires reported since …
A wildfire that started in a field of sagebrush and cheatgrass spread quickly up a ridge destroying 10 homes and damaging another nine, the Boise fire chief said. Within two hours, firefighters had managed to build two containment lines and …
Athens-Clarke County fire officials said a retired University of Georgia art professor died in a house fire. Authorities said 66-year-old William “Bill” Marriott was discovered in his home by firefighters. Investigators said Mariott likely died from smoke and soot inhalation. …
Sparks occasionally flew from electrical wiring in a rental house where two adults and five children died in a fire, and the power failed often, other tenants and relatives of the deceased said. “Everything would go out and then they’d …
Parish and city officials won’t appeal a judge’s decision to award more than $42,000 in attorneys fees to the American Civil Liberties Union for a case challenging the legality of a religious icon in a Louisiana courthouse. St. Tammany Parish, …
In its latest report on the insurance market in the Sultanate of Oman, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services says that despite the heavy losses from Cyclone Gonu in 2007, the sector has much to commend it. “Oman has developed a …