A South Carolina woman has admitted scamming West Virginia’s workers’ compensation system for more than 15 years. Prosecutors said 60-year-old Harriett Miller of Georgetown, S.C., stole checks totaling nearly $116,000 that the state sent to Hazel Allen after Allen died …
State officials have agreed to pay $50,000 to the family of bicyclist who died during RAGBRAI in 2004. The state’s payment is expected to be approved by the State Appeal Board of Friday. Iowa attorney general spokesman Bob Brammer says …
A federal grand jury has indicted a 53-year-old Bedford, N.H., man on charges he defrauded clients of his insurance agency. Prosecutors say from October 2001 to September 2003, Raymond Douville operated an insurance agency that catered to small, independently owned …
The Minneapolis Golf Club says it has reached an $8 million settlement with the family of Abigail Taylor, the 6-year-old girl who was fatally wounded by a swimming pool drain. Taylor died of injuries she suffered last summer when she …
The tropics seem to be going crazy what with the remnants of Gustav, the new threat from Hanna, a strengthening Ike and newcomer Josephine. Get used to it. U.S. hurricane experts say all the weather ingredients, which normally fluctuate, are …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its ‘BB-‘ long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings and its ‘ruAA-‘ Russian national scale rating to Russian reinsurer Unity Re with a stable outlook. “The ratings are based on the company’s …
A jet engine fire engulfed the wing of an air tanker moments after takeoff, sending the plane rolling into the ground and killing all three members of the aerial firefighting crew, a federal investigator said. The Lockheed P2V-7 aircraft on …
Snow and rain have doused two major wild fires burning in Wyoming. Both the Gunbarrel Fire, burning west of Cody and the New Fork Fire north of Pinedale were beaten down by the moisture. Officials say both fires are now …
A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to ‘B-‘ (Fair) from ‘B+’ (Good) and issuer credit rating (ICR) to ‘bb-” from ‘bbb-” of Oklahoma City-based American Farmers & Ranchers Group and its members American Farmers & Ranchers …
Improperly maintained utility lines were to blame for three wildfires that swept through California’s San Diego County last fall, killing two people, destroying 1,347 homes, and forcing massive evacuations, state regulators said. The California Public Utilities Commission said the October …