Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray announced he is encouraged by a recent federal court ruling granting class certification in the securities litigation against American International Group Inc. (AIG). The ruling in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of …
A Milan court convicted three Google Inc executives on Wednesday for violating the privacy of an Italian boy with autism by letting a video of him being bullied be posted on the site in 2006. Google will appeal the six-month …
Investigators used security videotapes and shoe prints to help them link two men to two church fires in Texas, according to arrest warrant affidavits. Jason Robert Bourque, 19, and Daniel George McAllister, 21, were arrested and charged Feb. 21 with …
The Texas Fire Marshal’s office says that preplanned exit strategies were vital in limiting the number of casualties on Feb. 18 in Austin when a disturbed pilot flew his single-engine plane into an office building that housed 190 employees of …
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford has suspended the non-resident business entity producer’s license of Cinergy Health Inc. pending the outcome of an administrative hearing scheduled for March 11, 2010, at the Arkansas Insurance Department. Arkansas regulators said that Cinergy Health …
New York insurance regulators recovered $32.3 million last year for consumers who complained about insurers’ business practices and claims handling. The Insurance Department investigates approximately 60,000 complaints a year. In all, 7,780 people across the state received money back as …
Two workers injured in a power plant explosion filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that proper safety procedures were not followed, and an attorney said that included live electricity running through the site, workers welding and a gas-fueled torch heater running …
A fire has damaged a northwestern Pennsylvania ice arena that’s home to a major junior hockey team. The fire broke out sometime late Monday night at Tullio Arena in Erie. That’s where the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League …
An Ohio man is charged with setting fire to a western Pennsylvania mobile home he used to rent after police say heavy snows kept him from driving away. Thirty-three-year-old Robert Lee Armstrong, of Warren, Ohio, is charged with arson, burglary …
A former claims adjuster for Progressive in Maryland has been sentenced for stealing more than $39,000 from the insurer, according to the state’s attorney general. Chae Hyong Chu, has been sentenced on a single count of felony theft. Montgomery County …