The Illinois Supreme Court has sided with health care providers who treated a mentally ill man who subsequently murdered his wife. In Brenda Tedrick, Adm’r Of The Estate Of Teresa Street, Deceased, et al., V. Community Resource Center Inc., et …
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed suit against a southeast Missouri construction company, alleging racial harassment of three black workers and retaliation when they complained. EEOC filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in St. Louis against Dollins …
An Indiana woman who sued the LaPorte Community School Corp. after her 9-year-old son choked to death on a turkey corn dog will receive $500,000. A LaPorte Circuit Court jury awarded Maria Rosales $5 million in the September 2006 death …
Residents of Findlay, Ohio, have been told that stopping persistent flooding could cost more than $100 million. Officials showed off flood control ideas Sept. 28 in Findlay, a city in northwest Ohio where a river has overflowed its banks at …
California State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced today that the Department of Insurance has reached a $600,000 settlement agreement with Life Insurance Company of North America (“LINA”) to resolve allegations of disability insurance claims handling violations from February 2005 through …
A Travis County, Texas, district court has sentenced a Fort Worth woman on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, Texas Mutual Insurance Company reports. The court ordered Sheran Keyton to repay $3,146 to Texas Mutual, perform 80 hours of community service and …
Seven farms and eight farm labor contractors in southern New Jersey have been fined for federal labor law violations, including employing children as young as 7 for farm labor. All the farms are in Atlantic County. The U.S. Department of …
Authorities are offering up to $6,500 in rewards for information about the arson of elementary school playground equipment in Cumberland. City and state investigators say the fire Saturday morning caused an estimated $175,000 worth of damage to the climbing walls …
Stop signs are supposed to be traffic safety tools, but how effective are they? According to one researcher at Canada’s Ryerson University, intersections with stop signs can be some of the deadliest places on the road. In 2005 the Ministry …
By networking existing databases and adding secure reporting and analytic functions, two insurance industry organization hope to create a nationwide information sharing system on cargo crimes. The rating and statistical organization ISO (Insurance Services Office) and the National Insurance Crime …