West Virginia inspectors shut down a Randolph County hotel after finding several dozen fire and health violations. Randolph County sheriff’s deputies evacuated the America’s Best Value Inn and locked the hotel last week after a circuit judge issued an injunction …
Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $2,260,775 dividend to the CompGroup AGC workers’ compensation purchasing group. The dividend was based largely on the group’s favorable loss ratio. CompGroup AGC members have shared in more than $12 million in group dividends …
Membership among volunteer firefighters in Texas has dropped to levels predating a surge brought on by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks seven years ago, a state official says. Many found firefighting less glamorous than they thought it would be or …
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe added Craighead, Lawrence, Madison, Newton and Saline counties to the list of state disaster declarations following damage caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ike on Sept. 13 and 14. Beebe previously declared Carroll, Clay, Cleburne, Garland, …
Three years after Hurricane Katrina brought New Orleans’ restaurant industry to its knees, Hurricane Ike has delivered a crippling blow to three New Orleans area restaurant families. Middendorf’s, the legendary seafood house in Manchac, La., was so badly flooded by …
Thousands of people in the St. Louis area are still coping with the destruction and inconveniences left behind after the area was hit by flash flooding on Sept. 14. Hundreds of homes have been condemned pending repairs and some still …
President Bush Tuesday said the U.S. economy was depending on decisive action from the government on a financial bailout plan or the economic damage could be “painful and lasting.” “I assure our citizens and citizens around the world that this …
A woman is suing the City of Salem, Massachusetts for $100,000, claiming she broke her wrist when she tripped over a firefighter’s emergency bag. Betty Ann Peck discovered a woman passed out on the floor of ladies room at a …
The New York Liquidation Bureau said it has completed all necessary steps to bring to a close the ancillary receivership in New York of American Eagle Insurance Company, a Texas-based property/casualty firm declared insolvent in 1997. American Eagle had been …
Congress has shelved a $10.9 billion bill to provide health care for ground zero workers, partly due to opposition from New York City officials. Mayor Michael Bloomberg objected to a provision in the bill that would have required the city …