California is still vulnerable to devastating loss should another earthquake occur like the Loma Prieta earthquake, which occured 20 years ago, according to ProtectingAmerican.org. “The fact is, that California’s largest cities are economically vulnerable as they were when the Loma …
Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $655,576 dividend to the Texas Medical Group (TMG). TMG has earned $938,168 in workers’ compensation dividends during the past two years. Group dividends are based largely on TMG’s favorable loss ratio. …
A western South Dakota rancher is tallying his losses after some of his cattle escaped a fence and ended up on Interstate 90 near New Underwood. Nine young cattle were hit by vehicles after dark on Oct. 20. One driver …
A northern Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized lounge chair while drunk. A criminal complaint says 62-year-old Dennis LeRoy Anderson told police he left the Keyboard Lounge in Proctor on his customized La-Z-Boy after drinking eight or …
After scores of deaths, the U.S. government is taking a closer look at off-road recreational vehicles, known as ROVs. The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted this week to write mandatory rules to regulate the four-wheel vehicles, after more than 100 …
A lawsuit has beenn filed against Garden Park Medical Center by two employees who said they were sexually harassed for years by a male nurse at the Gulfport, Mississippi hospital. The suit was filed in federal court. Nurses Regina Guinn …
A lawyer for two former Yale University law students says they have settled their lawsuit against several people they accused of posting sexually harassing and threatening messages about them on an Internet site. San Francisco attorney Ashok Ramani told The …
The Connecticut Insurance Department’s Consumer Affairs unit says it recovered more than $700,000 for consumers in the third quarter. The department received 1,696 complaints this quarter – a typical amount for a three-month period – and less than half of …
The UK’s Met Office, in cooperation with the government, has published a detailed and interactive map, illustrating the global consequences of failing to keep temperature increases to less than 2°C [3.6° F]. The map was developed “using the latest peer-reviewed …
President Barack Obama’s willingness to consider alternatives to medical malpractice lawsuits is providing a boost for taking such cases out of the courtroom and letting experts, not juries, decide their merits. The idea of appointing neutral experts to sift malpractice …