Authorities say a motor coach bus has gone off the road and overturned in Queen Anne’s County, injuring 17 people, including 10 children. The county fire department says the bus overturned at Route 213 near Centreville on Thursday morning. Video …
Fire officials say a fire that extensively damaged a northern New Jersey restaurant started when grease in ductwork above a charcoal broiler ignited. Firefighters from several towns battled the blaze at the Chevy’s Fresh Mex in Parsippany for about two …
Burns and Wilcox, Chartis, Hub, Lloyds of London, Navigators, Pure, QBE and Tower to share Innovations Dallas, TX – May 16, 2011 – The Entrepreneurial Insurance Symposium On September 12-14, 2011, MarketScout will host its fifth annual Entrepreneurial Insurance Symposium …
A Salem attorney has filed a lawsuit accusing an insurance company that represents military members and their families of fraudulently denying claims after car crashes. The Salem Statesman Journal reports the suit, filed in Portland, accuses USAA Insurance Co. of …
Hate insects? Afraid of germs? Researchers are reporting an alarming combination: bedbugs carrying a staph “superbug.” Canadian scientists detected drug-resistant staph bacteria in bedbugs from three hospital patients from a downtrodden Vancouver neighborhood. Bedbugs have not been known to spread …
A federal judge has sentenced Sean Hunter, the former director of aviation at Louis Armstrong International Airport, to one year and a day in prison in a Hurricane Katrina insurance fraud case. The Times-Picayune reports U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval …
Alaska has seen a significant decrease in workplace fatalities — down 42.5 percent from the previous decade — according to the epidemiology branch of the state Division of Public Health. According to the Division, during 2000–2009, 379 work-related fatalities were …
A legislative committee is continuing work on legislation easing the responsibility of North Carolina employers for workers compensation claims. A state House committee is taking up the measure Thursday. Employers want to limit their liability for workplace injuries. Opponents object …
Baltimore Councilwoman Belinda Conaway is suing a political blogger and his publisher for $21 million for libel and defamation over a column that alleged she did not live in the city. The suit filed Tuesday alleges an Examiner.com column by …
Federal food safety authorities say chives distributed in nine states by an upstate New York company are being recalled because of possible listeria contamination. The Food and Drug Administration says the chives from Goodness Gardens Inc. of New Hampton were …