The California Legislature has approved a bill to allow the Department of Insurance to help better monitor insurance fraud trends. To help prevent, detect and investigate insurance fraud, existing law requires insurers to disclose to an authorized governmental agency information …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed penalties of $374,500 against Cooperative Plus Inc., a farmer-owned cooperative, for federal workplace safety violations at its Whitewater and Genoa City, Wis., sites. These penalties follow a $721,000 …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma alleging that Shawnee, Okla.-based Modern Oil Co. Inc., doing business as Kwick Stop Convenience Stores, …
A federal judge is recommending approval of a $12 million settlement for those sickened or killed in last year’s salmonella outbreak tied to a Virginia-based peanut processor. U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Urbanski issued his recommendation late Wednesday for the payments …
A federal court forfeiture hearing has been postponed in the case of a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge convicted of insurance fraud, because the judge’s wife has hired a new attorney to try to prevent their home from being seized. …
Thousands of ground zero responders are being given more time to decide whether to settle lawsuits over their exposure to potentially toxic dust from the ruins of the World Trade Center, lawyers in the case said. The lawyers said they …
A 7-year-old Virginia boy’s craving for a roasted marshmallow snack turned into a fast-moving fire that nearly destroyed the house. Fire and rescue units from at least eight Albemarle County departments responded to Tuesday’s blaze near Charlottesville. No one was …
The Manchester fire chief says four fires set overnight in the New Hampshire city were arson. WMUR-TV says someone lit a mattress on fire was shortly after 1:00 a.m. Thursday on Manchester Street. Then at about 2:45 a.m. someone set …
The federal government has paid more than $6 billion in benefits and compensation to employees who became injured working in nuclear weapons industry. More than 61,000 workers have received the payments in the nine years since the benefits law, Energy …
The Catholic Diocese of Lansing has paid $225,000 to a man who says he was molested by a priest in the 1950s but says the accusation can’t be substantiated. The Lansing State Journal reported that the man’s attorney, David Mittleman, …