The parents of a 6-year-old boy who died after the car in which he was riding was struck by a train at a southern Indiana rail crossing are suing over his death. The lawsuit alleges that Indiana Rail Road Co., …
State lawmakers appear ready to increase the independence of West Virginia’s local governments, and they aren’t waiting on results from an ongoing experiment on the subject. The Senate is expected to take up a pair of House-passed bills this week …
Toyota Motor Corp. said it had found no flaw with its throttle controls as it seeks to dismiss an external study critical of its electronic safety systems. The conclusions, announced at a news conference on Monday, marked an attempt by …
The Supreme Court said Monday that it would decide whether a federal law protects vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits in state court seeking damages for alleged design defects. The high court agreed to hear a Pennsylvania case involving a lawsuit by …
A Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles spokesman says the agency is trying to keep pressure on school bus companies with poor safety records, in response to the DMV having ordered more than a quarter of the state’s school buses off …
A former New York City building inspector has been charged with selling safety certification cards to workers who hadn’t received any training. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan accused Michael DiNardo on Friday of selling dozens of Occupational Safety and Health Administration …
A Vermont man is getting a second change to argue that he deserves workers’ compensation after he swallowed a caustic cleaning agent he thought was Mountain Dew. Henri Cyr was working at a milk hauling company in 2006 when a …
Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd has issued preliminary estimates of expected claims from the earthquake in Chile and European Windstorm Xynthia. Total insured industry losses from the M8.8 earthquake in Chile, which hit on February 27, 2010, “will be in the range …
Oregon’s private sector workers suffered work-related injuries and illnesses at a rate of 4.6 percent for every 100 full0time employees in 2008, the most recent year for which data is available. According to the state Department of Consumer and Business …
A mining foreman accused of forging safety inspection reports at a West Virginia coal mine says his boss put profit ahead of potential danger, telling him to stop production and evacuate the mine only if a federal inspector was watching. …