Deere & Co. is recalling about 15,500 lawn tractors sold since last December due to a problem involving mower blade brake assemblies that increases chances that the operator can be cut by the spinning blades. The recall affects tractors sold …
An emergency response plan drafted 10 months before the Indiana State Fair’s deadly stage collapse details how staff should handle evacuations, but it doesn’t spell out the precise scenarios that would trigger an evacuation, newly released documents indicate. The 71-page …
An early-morning fire at a farmers’ cooperative union prompted a brief village evacuation over concerns that the fire could reach chemicals in the burning plant, Sheboygan County authorities said Wednesday. The fire was reported at Adell Cooperative Union in Adell …
Calmer winds, cooler temperatures and a few moments of sleet and light snow brought encouragement Wednesday as firefighters continued efforts to contain a blaze that was in a “pause mode” – days after it moved at breakneck speeds, swallowing nearly …
A small, flat fiberglass raft was all 10 oil workers had to escape the leveling winds and towering waves of Tropical Storm Nate as it pounded their disabled rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Capt. Jeremy Parfait of Louisiana radioed …
Authorities estimate that a tornado and strong storms in north Georgia inflicted at least $15 million in damage. Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens said Thursday that the damage estimate was preliminary and could grow as homeowners and insurers continue to assess …
The owners of two buildings in Morrilton that collapsed in May, killing a 2-year-old girl and injuring her mother, have been sued by the city in an attempt to get the sited cleaned up. The lawsuit filed in Conway County …
The United States heaped the lion’s share of blame for the country’s biggest ever offshore oil spill on BP Wednesday as the government issued its final assessment of last year’s Gulf disaster. In a report that may be pivotal in …
There was a 4.5 percent increase in questionable claims (QC) this year compared with 2010, according to the The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) report released today. The report noted a 18.3 percent increase when compared with the first half …
Aon Global Risk Consulting, a leading provider of risk advisory services and a business of Aon Corporation, announced that Mary Woodman joined the organization as a claims consultant for the Phoenix office. As part of Aon Global Risk Consulting’s broker …