For most Americans, Thanksgiving Day invokes memories of safe and warm family gatherings featuring hot turkey dinners. But for some 2,000 families a year, and for firefighters across the country, the memories are not so happy. There are an estimated …
A.M. Best Co. has removed from under review with negative implications and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-” of Bahamas First General Insurance Company Limited (BFG). Best has also removed …
An explosion rocked a remote colliery in New Zealand on Friday, trapping 27 miners underground, the company and local authorities said. The new mine, which only began shipping coal this year, is dug into the side of a mountain range …
Saint Paul, MN – November 19, 2010. Christopher Gross Consulting, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Texas Department of Insurance is licensing the Cognalysis™ Reserving System, to assist with the Department’s analysis, as it pertains to financial solvency regulation …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Schiller Park, Ill.-based Interstate Brands Corp., a manufacturer of bakery products, with 20 alleged safety violations for failing to properly train workers who operate powered industrial trucks, and …
A Florida jury has awarded the daughter of a deceased smoker $80 million in a lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Dianne Webb claimed her father’s 1996 death was caused by a 60-year smoking addiction fed by company manipulation and …
At Orange Beach in Alabama, what’s typically a beautiful, quiet stretch of beach in the fall now resembles a construction site. Bulldozers and yellow dump trucks shake the ground; a giant sifting machine spits clean sand out one end, tar …
Work-related deaths in West Virginia have fallen to their lowest level since 2002. Preliminary figures released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show 41 workers suffered fatal on-the-job injuries in 2009, down from 53 in 2008. Forty …
Federal safety officials are calling on states to require all motorcycle riders to wear helmets, citing a surge in fatalities since the late 1990s. Motorcycle deaths have increased over the last decade even as other traffic fatalities have declined, the …
A $10 million federal grant will be used for the Krueger Canyon Dam project to help prevent flooding in New Braunfels. The funding for Comal County was announced late Tuesday by U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith. The dam is to be …