The Michigan House has passed a bill that would let motorcycle riders 21 and older travel without helmets, despite the threat of a veto from Gov. Jennifer Granholm. The Democrat-led House passed repeal on a 63-46 vote. The bill now …
Desima James would seem to be the unluckiest man in America. In 2005 and 2006 alone, he suffered through three devastating Gulf Coast hurricanes, a tornado in Indiana and flooding in New Hampshire. Or so he told the Federal Emergency …
A.M. Best Co. affirmed the issuer credit rating (ICR) of “bbb+” of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. with a negative outlook. The rating agency also affirmed the FSRs of ‘A’ (Excellent) and ICRs of “a+” of the key life/health …
North Carolina’s big-city motorists are losing nearly on average the cost of a tank of gas every week to pay for their troubles from pot holes, longer waits in traffic and perilous roads. A national transportation group released a report …
As insurance and real estate agents and homeowners feared, Congress left Washington without extending the federal flood insurance program. Congress adjourned until April 12 after failing to agree on an unemployment benefits bill that included a provision with an extension …
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has appointed workers’ compensation attorney Mitchel R. Weisz as acting chairman of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission. Amy Masters, who has been heading the organization since the retirement of Paul Rink in late February, will return …
Louisiana insurance regulators have served a Denham Springs, La., agent and her agency with cease and desist orders, license revocations and fine notices for alleged misappropriation, misrepresentation and forgery. Michelle Schulin Paul and her agency, The Reed Agency Inc., each …
Federal officials say damage to levees in Missouri has put much of northeast Arkansas in a federally defined high-risk flood zone. St. Francis Levee District CEO Rob Rash estimates that 125,000 households in the region will now have to buy …
More than 250,000 hens have been put down due to power loss at a major Ohio egg farm where a warehouse fire burned recently for several hours. Ohio Fresh Eggs spokeswoman Hinda Mitchell says nearly 500,000 eggs were also destroyed. …
Bayer CropScience knew that if an experimental strain of its genetically modified rice got into the commercial market it would be disastrous, a lawyer for a dozen Arkansas rice farmers said March 24 as a civil trial on the issue …