The firefighters were trapped in what amounted to a burning maze: a Bronx apartment illegally divided into extra rooms for the sake of making a buck in this cramped city. With flames licking at their bodies and black smoke making …
Police in Pocomoke City, Maryland have made three arrests in connection with an October fire that caused more than $700,000 damage to a municipal building. Twenty-two-year-old Nicholas Depaolis, his 19-year-old brother Matthew and 19-year-old Charles Furst are each charged with …
Federal regulators have proposed $42,000 in fines against a western Pennsylvania roofing company that had two workers electrocuted when their scaffolding hit a power line. Fifty-two-year-old James Bolen, of Jeannette, and 50-year-old William McNemar, of Turtle Creek, worked for W.R. …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its ‘AA-‘ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Renaissance Reinsurance of Europe (RenRe Europe) with a stable outlook. “RenRe Europe, an Ireland-based company, is a subsidiary of Renaissance Reinsurance Ltd. (RenRe; AA-/Stable/–), …
Bermuda-based Validus Holdings announced that it has increased its estimate of the net adverse effect from Hurricane Ike by approximately $70.1 million to a current total estimate of approximately $235.1 million. Validus said its new estimate is “is net of …
XL Insurance announced from its office in Hartford that the Company has hired eight new field engineers for its worldwide property loss prevention services business, XL Global Asset Protection Services (XL GAPS). “The new risk engineers will meet the global …
The number of fire deaths across the state increased by 42 percent last year over 2007, according to the Ohio fire marshal’s office. Officials have no clear explanation for the increase to 183 fire deaths in 2008 from 129 in …
Iowa authorities said that Robert K. Miell was tried and convicted on Jan. 9 on income tax fraud in United States District Court in Des Moines. Last week, Miell had pled guilty to 18 counts of mail fraud relating to …
Volunteers preparing to respond to disasters in Nebraska have the same immunity from liability as those in paid positions. That’s the legal opinion of Attorney General Jon Bruning’s office in response to questions from Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy. The opinion …
A clergy abuse scandal has cost the Archdiocese of Cincinnati more than $11 million in the past six years, church officials announced. In 2008, the archdiocese spent nearly $1.2 million on costs related to clergy abuse, or less than 2 …