Nearly $12 million in auto insurance fraud was reported in South Carolina last year, according to the state attorney general’s office. According to the 2010 annual insurance fraud report, 324 auto-related fraud complaints were received by the state attorney general’s …
The Metrodome’s new roof is up again. Stadium officials and construction workers have completed a test inflation of the Teflon-coated ceiling. Chief engineer Steve Maki says the process was problem-free. It took about an hour Wednesday morning. The project is …
Major league teams are reviewing stadium safety following the death of a fan at a Texas Rangers game last week, while still encouraging players to toss balls into the stands. Shannon Stone, a 39-year-old attending a Rangers’ game in Texas …
While there has been a notable decline in the construction industry over recent years, no such drop has occurred in the volume of construction defect lawsuits involving condominium (“condo”) projects. As adjusters are aware, these actions tend to last three …
A Coast Guard vessel’s dangerous speed likely caused a collision that killed an 8-year-old boy and seriously injured four other people aboard a pleasure boat during a holiday parade, the National Transportation Safety Board found Tuesday. The board also faulted …
A union lawyer for two health inspectors who issued a permit for a murky Massachusetts public swimming pool where a woman’s body lay unnoticed for days says they had no authority to close the state-operated facility. Jaime DiPaolo-Kenny spoke Tuesday …
Illinois’ Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission has filed a complaint against a lawyer who represented a state trooper injured in a wreck he caused that killed two sisters. The commission contends attorney Kerry O’Sullivan exchanged emails with former Workers’ Compensation …
A severe thunderstorm spawned funnel clouds and strafed southeast Wyoming with golfball-sized hail. In Cheyenne, the hail shredded trees, dented cars and damaged a handful of private planes at the airport. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports the hail also plugged …
The mother of a Peabody boy who suffered severe injuries when he was struck in the head by a baseball during a Little League practice in 2007 has filed suit against the organization, two officers and a coach. The lawsuit …
Financial pressures may have led a New Zealand coal mining operation to overextend itself before an explosion killed 29 workers last year, an energy executive testified Monday at an inquiry into the country’s worst mine disaster in decades. The executive …