The crop insurance industry has paid more than $825 million to the farmers in North Dakota for losses due to crop loss or decrease in commodity prices for 2008, according to the most recent summary of business data released by …
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed fines of $104,200 against a New Hampshire steam generating plant following a January fire in which a worker was burned. OSHA says in the incident, pressurized oil ignited after leaking from …
Connecticut officials say the federal government is rejecting a request for aid for homeowners for storm damage that included a tornado on June 26. State officials say that preliminary damage information shows the state is not expected to be eligible, …
A woman falsely implicated by New York police in a gruesome 1989 multiple murder is entitled to more than $250,000 in compensation for the nearly 2 1/2 years she spent behind bars, a New York Court of Claims judge has …
A northeast Wisconsin trucker has won another legal battle involving an insurance claim he filed after hitting a deer in 2002. Court records say what started as a $7,500 claim has since mushroomed to nearly $250,000 in damages and legal …
Dallas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Agency LLC announced a $105,407 dividend to the Texas Home Builders Workers’ Comp (THB-WC) purchasing group. The group’s premium volume and loss ratio were factors in determining its dividend. The THB-WC group, formed in September 2005 exclusively …
A 43-year-old Arlene Reed Salameh of Rayne, La., will serve five years of a 10-year prison sentence for stealing more than $250,000 from her employer, Insurance Liquidators Inc. Salameh was accused of stealing from the Lafayette office of Insurance Liquidators, …
The state of Michigan says it spent about $170,000 to repair a busy stretch of Interstate 75, which reopened less than five days after a fiery tanker crash caused an overpass to melt and collapse. The Michigan Department of Transportation …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency says West Virginia has received more than $26 million in relief from severe storms, flooding and landslides in May. The agency said Monday more than $11.5 million has gone to housing assistance. Another $9.8 million …
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has ordered coal producer Massey Energy to make changes at a West Virginia mine where a worker died in October. MSHA says in a report that 32-year-old apprentice miner Steven Cain was crushed …