Federal investigators have been unable to prove a definite link between imported Chinese drywall and home damage and health issues. But they aren’t done investigating. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said that the problems with the Chinese manufactured home product …
The estates of two men who died of asbestos-related lung cancer years after receiving a settlement for increased risks and fear of the disease can again sue another manufacturer of the material under the so-called “two-disease rule,” Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court …
On average, the number of Texans hit by cars spikes 23.3 percent during Halloween week, according to Allstate Insurance Company. The insurer recently looked at its Texas auto insurance claims involving pedestrians over the past five years and found a …
Health officials are investigating how a surgeon at Rhode Island Hospital mistakenly operated on the wrong part of a patient’s hand, the hospital’s fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007. Hospital President Timothy Babineau said in a letter that the mistake Thursday …
The Pennsylvania-based Sheetz convenience store chain has settled out of court with a West Virginia firm that allegedly supplied salmonella-tainted tomatoes that sickened more than 400 customers in 2004. Sheetz was suing Coronet Foods of Wheeling, W. Va. Coronet, a …
Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine has issued a directive to homeowners insurance companies ordering them not to penalize policyholders who’ve had flood damage. “A consumer should not be penalized for reporting damage,” Oxendine said. “I don’t want insurers non-renewing …
Pearl River Community College in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is moving forward on rebuilding facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina after four years of “moving in quicksand.” Officials settled with Zurich Insurance Co. in August over extensive storm damage incurred on its Poplarville …
Georgia officials say they have arrested the ringleader in a fraud ring operating in Savannah, that collected nearly $95,000 from six insurance companies by staging accidents and filing bogus claims. Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine said Joseph T. Morris Jr., …
Construction continues to be a hazardous job for some workers in New York City. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this week that of the 90 fatal workplace injuries in the city in 2008, about a third involved construction …
A January trial is scheduled for the former owner of a chemical company who’s facing charges stemming from a spill in Huntington that displaced hundreds of people. Former TechSol Chemical Co. owner James R. Holt pleaded not guilty this week …