Taxpayers should be off the hook for any damages stemming from claims of police misconduct related to the Republican National Convention under a first-of-its-kind agreement. The deal required the Republican Party’s host committee to buy insurance covering up to $10 …
A catastrophic risk management company says private insurers could face damages from Hurricane Gustav between $4 billion and $10 billion. Newark, California-based Risk Management Solutions said on September 2 that the estimate included damage to the offshore petroleum industry and …
A grand jury has indicted a Houston, Texas couple over a 2003 fire that killed their daughter and a boy in an alleged house insurance scheme. Harris County Fire Marshal’s arson investigator Lonnie Blevins said Wednesday that 44-year-old Sharon Watkins …
Three western Pennsylvania residents have pleaded guilty to taking part in a chiropractor’s scheme to defraud an insurance company. John Layhew, of Lower Burrell, and Linda and William McClafferty, of New Kensington, each pleaded guilty to one count of health …
The owners of a nightclub where a 2003 fire at a Great White concert killed 100 people have reached a tentative $813,000 settlement with survivors and relatives of those killed, the latest in a flurry of agreements made in the …
A center that studies emergency responses to disasters like the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina is opening at a Manhattan college. The Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies is named after a 28-year-old firefighter killed at the World …
Powerful Hurricane Ike weakened slightly as it moved across the Atlantic toward the Bahamas and the U.S. on Thursday, while Tropical Storm Hanna’s death toll from floods in Haiti grew to 136. Campgrounds were closed and some evacuations began on …
Foreclosures haven’t hit local condominium associations in coastal Alabama as much as their peers in some states, but that may change as new assessments are sent out to help pay for insurance. Condo foreclosures hit a plateau about six months …
Fire that destroyed a vacant warehouse on Atlanta’s North Avenue snarled traffic on the busy street during the morning rush hour. Fire broke out about 3 a.m. on Sept. 4 at the warehouse once occupied by Dixie Seal and Stamp …
Bermuda’s XL Capital announced that it will host a global risk conference — XL Congress — on October 2-3 in Washington, D.C. with the theme of “Intelligent Change for A World At Risk.” “The conference, an invitation-only event, is modeled …