A jury has ruled against a Massachusetts woman who claimed in a lawsuit against her real estate broker that she was forced to move out of her condominium because of secondhand cigarette smoke coming from a neighbor. Alyssa Burrage alleged …
Insurance regulators in Illinois are encouraging residents to review earthquake insurance policies after a small quake was recorded in the state recently. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake surprised northern Illinoisans Feb. 10. It hit about 45 miles northwest of Chicago at 4 …
Oklahoma State Representative Dan Sullivan wants employers “to know that we’re open for business in Oklahoma.” Sullivan, a driving force behind Oklahoma workers’ compensation reform in the state’s House of Representatives, is the author of six bills aimed at overhauling …
A seasonal worker is entitled to workers compensation benefits for an injury sustained after falling at a housing complex supplied by his employer, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. The court sided with the migrant worker who argued the …
A former executive at the parent company of the Dunkin’ Donuts coffee shop chain alleges in a $5 million lawsuit that the Massachusetts-based company damaged his reputation so much that he can’t land another job. Michael O’Donovan, who as vice …
An elderly Maine woman who was sickened when she ate tainted beef produced by New York-based Fairbank Farms is suing the company. Lawyers say 88-year-old Alice Smith purchased the meat at Shaw’s grocery store in Portland in early September and …
Federal officials say Rhode Island-based Daniele International is expanding its recall of salami products that may be contaminated with salmonella. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Tuesday that 115,000 pounds of salami products manufactured by …
Massachuetts fire investigators say smoking in the presence of an oxygen tank led to fire at a Lynn senior housing complex over the weekend that killed a 68-year-old man. Fire Lt. David Legere tells The Daily Item of Lynn that …
City of Commerce, Calif., resident Richard Lewis Johnson has pled no contest to one count of grand theft of workers’ compensation payments and was placed on three years probation and ordered to pay $20,714 in restitution to Avizent Risk Management, …
new Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has signed a disaster declaration for five northwestern counties that were hit hard by recent snow storms. Richardson’s order covers Cibola, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and San Juan counties. It frees up to $300,000 in …