A historic bridge has collapsed in Conway County after the driver of a 9-ton truck drove over the structure that has a 3-ton weight limit. The Fryer Bridge is a metal truss that’s one of the last of its kind …
Officials in Salt Lake County are preparing for potential flooding this year by filling thousands of sandbags and stockpiling large rocks. The Deseret News reports the county will have about 10,000 sandbags filled by the end of April. The mountains …
Whitefish, Montana police have arrested a 15-year-old boy on suspicion of starting a fire that caused $125,000 in damage to a thrift store and endangered a person who lived in an apartment above the store. The Daily Inter Lake reports …
A northern Indiana city has settled a lawsuit filed by the family of a 5-year-old boy fatally shocked in 2008 when he crawled into an electrical transformer box. WSBT-TV in South Bend reports that attorneys for Mishawaka confirm the settlement …
There has been a 42 percent increase in bodily injury claims against insurers since 2001, according to a new report, Personal Injury Claims Market in the UK, from Celent, a Boston-based financial research and consulting firm. This is despite safer …
A judge in Austin, Texas, has ruled that State Farm Insurance Co. must comply with a state insurance department directive to repay policyholders in a long running dispute between the insurer and Texas insurance regulators over alleged overcharges for homeowners …
Valerie D. Henry, 38, of Fort Drum, was arrested and charged with insurance fraud and falsifying business records after purportedly losing two diamond rings. New York State Insurance Department Frauds Bureau investigators reported that Henry filed an insurance claim with …
South Carolina lawmakers are using language by a conservative, business-funded special interest group as a model for legislation aimed at limiting lawsuits. Punitive damage limits legislation started out modeled after one by the American Legislative Exchange Council. Legislators in Tennessee, …
Three men have been convicted in a foiled 2009 plot to murder a woman so one of them could collect a $300,000 insurance policy. A Davidson County Criminal Court jury on Monday found Brian Dunkley, Donte Chestnut and William Irish …
Federal workplace safety officials are trying to pinpoint what caused a reported explosion and flash fire that injured three people at a southwestern Illinois ethanol plant. Madison Fire Chief Jeff Bridick says at least one of the victims of the …