A New Jersey woman who claims she was disabled by a co-workers’ perfume can move forward with her worker’s compensation lawsuit, an appeals panel ruled Friday. Doris Sexton sued the county-owned nursing home where she worked until January 2004. In …
A law school professor has submitted a plan for distributing $176 million in settlement money among the more than 300 people who sued after a Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people. The proposal from Francis McGovern, a court-appointed …
Toyota said last week that it plans to roll out new safety and driver-assist programs on certain Toyota and Lexus models beginning late this summer. That marks the first major competition for Detroit-based General Motors’ OnStar service since it started …
Georgia Power’s top executive in Savannah says the utility will have a plan by the end of this month for making safety improvements to the downtown electrical grid after two recent fires sparked underground explosions. Cathy Hill, the company’s regional …
A Cedar Rapids landlord has been convicted of two counts of tax fraud. It took a Sioux City jury just two hours to convict Robert Miell on Friday. The 54-year-old was convicted in U.S. District Court of filing false tax …
The drunk who assaulted an employee caused Denise Brigham to close her St. Cloud, Minnesota, store and attend court hearings for the suspect. The drunk who knocked the electrical meter off her store wall caused the compressors to fail and …
A luxurious castle-like home in Johnson City, Tennessee, a prominent landmark with two soaring towers and a majestic lakeside setting, has been badly burned by fierce flames, authorities said. Assistant Fire Chief Mark Finucane said a wood-shingled roof and top …
The construction industry is collaborating with West Virginia University to develop a program to better train workers in safety. Chandler Swope, president of Swope Construction Co. in Bluefield, has committed $30,000 over the next two years to create the West …
Seal Beach, CA and San Rafael, CA, January 12, 2009 — American Pinnacle Partners, Inc. (“APP”), a holding company of specialty insurance companies, and Consolidated Specialty Risk Managers (“CSRM”), a specialty A&H Managing General Underwriter, announced today that APP has …
When it comes to corporate fraud scandals, nowhere is safe. Revelations of a $1 billion fraud at Indian IT firm Satyam Computer Services do not point to a higher systemic risk of accounting scandals in India, or even in emerging …