Safety officials say Maine’s highway death toll for the year remains below 2008, which was the safest year on the state’s roads since 1959. According to the Bureau of Highway Safety, there have been 138 fatalities on Maine roads so …
New Hampshire is promoting safe holidays with a new campaign against driving drunk or drugged. More than 200 state officials are expected to attend the campaign’s launch at the governor’s annual highway safety luncheon in Meredith today. Gov. John Lynch …
Two former county judges accused of taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send juveniles to private detention facilities are partially immune from civil lawsuits, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Friday. The decision by U.S. District Judge A. Richard …
A federal jury in Minneapolis on Friday ruled against Fair Isaac Corp. in its lawsuit accusing Experian Plc and TransUnion LLC of antitrust and trademark violations for using a credit scoring system that competes with its widely used “FICO” score. …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a+” of Swiss-based Mondial Assistance International AG (MAI) and its U.S. subsidiary, New York-based Jefferson Insurance Company. The outlook for …
A series of violent storms struck the west coast of England, beginning last Thursday. Cumbria, the County just below the Scottish border, was the most severely affected area, where heavy rain caused extensive flooding in a number of towns. At …
Most Americans want Congress to deal with malpractice lawsuits driving up the cost of medical care, says an Associated Press poll. Yet Democrats are reluctant to press forward on an issue that would upset a valuable political constituency — trial …
A tour bus driver suffered a ruptured aneurysm before a crash on a southern Minnesota interstate that killed two people and injured 21 others. That’s according to a spokesman for Strain Bus Line, the company that runs the trips to …
Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $760,070 dividend to the Texas Green Industry (TGI) purchasing group. TGI has earned $2,643,037 in workers’ compensation dividends since 2005. Group dividends are based largely on TGI’s favorable loss ratio. By committing to workplace …
Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray has filed a lawsuit against national securities and credit ratings agencies Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch over what the AG’s office called “false and misleading” securities information. The lawsuit, filed in United States District …