Engle Martin & Associates, Inc., a national insurance adjusting and claims administration firm, has appointed Jay T. Campbell to serve in the newly created role of executive vice president of operations at the company’s corporate headquarters in Atlanta. Since 1993, …
A Hinds County (Mississippi) Circuit Court jury awards $2.5 million to a Jackson woman who lost sight in one eye when purse-snatchers beat her in a supermarket parking lot. Jurors deliberated about 90 minutes before finding that The Kroger Co. …
Gov. Sonny Perdue has asked for a presidential disaster declaration covering 33 Georgia counties struck by severe weather and floods. Perdue also issued an executive order declaring a state of emergency in 17 additional counties affected by heavy rains and …
Wildfire season has arrived in Michigan, and authorities say the fires will quickly erase memories of an unusually wet Michigan winter. Forest managers say Michigan’s highest wildfire risk is from mid-April through Memorial Day, a period that precedes spring greening …
A Pennsylvania company has settled a federal lawsuit that accused it of refusing to promote an employee at its Virginia plant because he is black. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced the settlement Thursday. The agency had filed the …
Amalgamated Produce, Inc. of Bridgeport, Connecticut has announced a voluntary recall of sprouts because they may be contaminated with listeria. The company said there have been no illnesses reported in connection with the Specialty Farms, Vermont Sprout House, Nature’s Promise …
A fire official says a mountainside blaze that consumed nearly 100 acres at New York’s Harriman State Park was caused by construction workers using an open fire for welding. Rockland County Fire Coordinator Gordon Wren says the workers were unable …
A former project coordinator at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey has won a split verdict in a whistleblower lawsuit against the school. A jury in Hudson County has awarded $349,000 to Carol Caprarola, who claimed she …
Risk Management Solutions’ latest bulletin on the devastating earthquake, which struck on Monday, estimates that “at least one in four homes in the epicentral area of L’Aquila in Italy have been damaged.” RMS said its data “shows that just 20 …
A former Miss West Virginia has won a $7.2 million verdict against nine Internet companies that tried to sell pornographic videos they falsely claimed featured her. A jury in U.S. District Court in Clarksburg last week ordered each defendant to …