Investigators are taking a “hard look” at safety at a northwestern Indiana steel mill following an explosion that killed one worker and injured four just weeks after another blast at the same plant injured eight workers, a state official said …
There has been an upside to the slowdown in construction activity in New York City: Fewer fatal workplace accidents. City officials reported Thursday that there were only three fatalities at New York building sites in 2009. That’s down from 19 …
Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles Rachel Kaprielian says a 4-year-old law that requires ignition locks on convicted drunken drivers’ cars has been successful in reducing the number of repeat offenders. Kaprielian tells The Boston Globe that more then 4,000 Bay …
A federal judge overseeing lawsuits stemming from a Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people endorsed a $176 million settlement Thursday, bringing survivors and victims’ relatives closer to receiving money and moving years of arduous legal wrangling toward a …
Michigan regulators report they recovered a record $33 million for financial services and insurance customers in 2009. Insurance Commissioner Ken Ross said the $33 million in consumer recoveries breaks the previous record of $17 million set by the agency in …
State insurance fraud fighting bureaus are seeing a significant spike in fraud cases while trying to manage with lower budgets and staffing in the downturned economy of 2009, according to a survey by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. Cases increased …
Elizabeth “Beth” Sammis has been appointed Interim Maryland Insurance Commissioner, overseeing the regulation of Maryland’s $26 billion insurance industry. Sammis has served as deputy commissioner for the Maryland Insurance Administration since 2007 focusing on legislative and regulatory policy, with an …
The Mississippi Supreme Court has reinstated a lawsuit against South Central Regional Medical Center in Laurel. Jones County Circuit Judge Billy Joe Landrum had ruled Gail Saul’s lawsuit, on behalf of her father, Raymond Cook, was filed after the one-year …
A former Army sergeant wounded by a deputy during a military training exercise in North Carolina has settled a civil rights lawsuit for $580,000. The Fayetteville Observer reported that Stephen Phelps, 35, agreed to dismiss his lawsuit against the Moore …
Thousands of trailers and mobile homes that have dotted the Mississippi landscape since serving as temporary housing after Hurricane Katrina are expected to be gone by early fall. About 28,000 trailers are scattered among five staging areas in Lamar, Forrest …