Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised to positive from stable its outlooks on the insurer financial strength ratings and long-term counterparty credit ratings on Japan’s Aioi Insurance Co. Ltd. and Nissay Dowa General Insurance Co. Ltd. S&P revised its …
City and state officials want to keep trucks off certain narrow streets in Manhattan’s crowded Chinatown after a delivery van hit and killed two children walking to their daycare center. State Sen. Daniel Squadron and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer …
A New Jersey nonprofit group is not liable for providing alcohol at a party where four guests were later killed in a drunk-driving crash, the state Supreme Court has ruled. The court upheld a law that allows licensed alcohol servers …
Baltimore fire officials say fire deaths were down last year, and they are crediting prevention and safety efforts. Fire officials say 19 fire deaths were recorded in the city in 2008, down from 34 the year before. Officials note the …
Some small business owners in Maine say a new federal law designed to protect the health of children is forcing them to scale back their operations because the compliance costs are too high. The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which …
State fire investigators are investigating a fire set at a former post office in Harford County, Maryland A passer-by discovered the fire at the building in the 600 block of Joppa Farm Road in Joppa around 5 a.m. Saturday and …
Contra Costa County, Calif., may end up paying more than $1 million in a discrimination case involving the county assessor. After a jury found County Assessor Gus Kramer and the county liable in one of a dozen claims filed by …
Three suburban Atlanta football coaches cannot be sued for alleged violations of the constitutional rights of a 15-year-old who died after a preseason practice in the summer of 2006, a federal appeals court ruled last Friday. A three-judge panel of …
A jury verdict that nine insurance companies are liable for costs of cleaning up PCB pollution of the lower Fox River in Wisconsin has been upheld by a Brown County judge. The jury had found that the insurance firms were …
Iowa lawmakers are again considering a bill to cut alcohol limits for boaters. The bill calls for lowering the blood-alcohol limit from .10 to .08, which is the limit for drivers on the road. The bill was approved by the …