A truck drivers group is suing the Minnesota State Patrol. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is challenging how the Patrol enforces rules against driving while fatigued. It says the Patrol arbitrarily declares truckers fatigued, takes them out of service and …
A year after the second-worst flood in history, Lee and Marilyn McGee of Monkey Run, Mo., are still waiting for a buyout offer. Like many who had damage, the McGees are juggling burdens as they struggle to put the disaster …
Indiana’s largest teachers union is working to untangle its insurance trust from millions of dollars in liabilities while the state and the FBI investigate whether fund managers did something more than make risky investments. The Indiana State Teachers Association’s insurance …
The alleged failure to protect its employees from potential trenching and excavation hazards has brought H & H Plumbing & Utilities Inc. $46,200 in proposed penalties from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) following an …
With its acquisition in early 2009 of the international business of GAB Robins (excluding its UK operations) and the U.S. forensic engineering firm, EFI Global, Cunningham Lindsey became the second largest property casualty insurance claims adjusting and risk management firm …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services issued a statement that its ratings and outlook on Germany’s Allianz SE (AZSE), currently ‘AA’/Stable/’A-1+’, and various core operating entities “are unaffected by the group’s marginal net income reported for first-quarter 2009.” S&P said its …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa-” of Ohio-based American Modern Insurance Group and its P/C members. Best has also upgraded the FSR to ‘A+’ (Superior) from …
A northern New Jersey ironworker has died after falling from bridge where he was working. NJ Transit spokesman Dan Stessel said 34-year-old Casey Moran of Bayonne fell 30 feet onto the railroad tracks of the Lower Hack Bridge on Tuesday. …
A 79-year-old driver apparently lost control of his car, jumped the curb and smashed into a fragrance and skin-care store on New York City’s busy Madison Avenue. The car hit several other vehicles before it slammed into the shop on …
Officials at a Providence, Rhode Island hospital group say an oral surgeon began operating on the wrong part of a patient’s mouth this week before discovering the error. It’s the fifth wrong-site surgery in the last two years in the …