Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania are investigating the death of a man killed by earth-moving equipment on a construction site. State police and the Lehigh County Coroner say 66-year-old Larry Winter of Moore Township was doing survey work at the Upper …
A Louisville, Kentucky woman is blaming a Toyota Camry’s unexpected acceleration for a crash that killed her son last year. Tina Stuckey has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in Jefferson Circuit Court claiming that her 15-year-old son, Nathaniel Stuckey, was a …
North Carolina’s current cap for monetary damages it could receive from oil spills would be eliminated in legislation approved last week by a House committee in response to the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental groups lined up …
BP said the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had already cost it $1.6 billion and that it would begin operating an additional mechanism to capture more crude from the leaking well in the coming days. London-based BP said …
President Barack Obama will press BP executives this week to set up an escrow account to pay damage claims by individuals and businesses hurt by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. The move comes as Obama, who will address …
A San Diego woman has been arrested for allegedly filing fraudulent disability insurance claims, the California Department of Insurance reported. Wanda Podgurski (aka Wanda Lee Ann Plager) of Manhattan Beach, Calif., was arrested at her home and booked in the …
Ohioans affected by the tornados that ripped through Wood, Fulton, and Ottawa Counties will be getting some relief when it comes to deadlines for paying their insurance premiums, Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson has announced. Director Hudson …
Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said his office has received a handful of reports that out-of-state repairmen are posing as local roofing companies to solicit for Oklahoma jobs. “Any time we experience property damage from severe weather the potential for …
Recent storms throughout Oklahoma caused a tremendous amount of property damage and the Oklahoma Insurance Department says some insurers have been, or currently are, issuing nonrenewal notices to many of their insured. Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland is strongly advising insurers …
The parents of a teen who died of heat stroke during a South Florida hike with his Boy Scouts troop is suing the organization. Attorneys for Howard Adelman and Judith Sclawy-Adelman filed the suit in Miami-Dade circuit court. The suit …