The widow of a collector of government trucks has donated three fire vehicles to a small Oklahoma County fire department. Luther, Okla., firefighters had entered a national contest hoping to win a new pumper truck for their agency, recording a …
Risk Management Solutions has added to its Japan typhoon existing suite of parametric industry loss indices. The program “now includes the insurance industry’s five largest peril regions – U.S. hurricane and earthquake, Europe windstorm, Japan typhoon and earthquake,” said the …
Florida insurance officials are holding a public workshop to review the form used by inspectors to document eligibility for wind mitigation discounts for personal residential property tomorrow, Wed., Sept. 22, 2010. During the workshop, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation …
A co-owner a paper mill in Lincoln, Maine, says a worker has been hospitalized after suffering burns during the mill’s annual shutdown for maintenance. Keith Van Scotter, co-owner of Lincoln Paper and Tissue, says the worker suffered hot water and …
A Rhode Island basketball referee has filed a libel lawsuit against Westerly High School’s athletic director for allegedly describing him as “a complete molester” in an e-mail to the state referees organization. Michael Cabral is seeking unspecified damages from athletic …
Boston inspectors are about to launch a crackdown on owners of nearly 150 vacant and unsafe buildings in a drive to improve the properties. A team from the fire, inspection services and other departments will start in East Boston Monday …
Volunteer fire departments across Delaware are having to scrimp and put off buying new equipment just to stay afloat as local, state and charitable funds are harder to find. Kevin Wilson, president of the Delaware Volunteer Firefighters Association, says government …
Police say a car-theft caper in southeast Michigan nabbed a $200 Batmobile replica. State police told The Daily Telegram of Adrian that the dark gray 1994 Pontiac Grand Am with a Batman insignia painted on the roof was reported stolen …
Police are investigating another suspicious fire in an abandoned home in Clayton, N.C. Multiple media outlets reported that last Saturday’s fire was the ninth intentionally set in the town about 15 miles southeast of Raleigh since October 2009. Wilson Mills …
Hurricane Igor barreled north Monday on a path expected to take it near Newfoundland and energy interests off eastern Canada, after battering Bermuda with heavy winds, waves and rain that caused damage but no casualties. The Canadian Hurricane Center issued …