Rankin Claim Services (RCS), a North Carolina-based independent adjusting firm, announced the launch of its specialty mechanical investigation unit dedicated to uncovering subrogation potential on losses involving plumbing components. “As the cost of engineers rise, and the cause of the …
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) reports that Rina has weakened to a tropical storm, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph, down from 85 mph yesterday. The storm is currently 90 miles south of Cozumel, Mexico, and 100miles east-northeast of …
The city of Antioch has agreed to pay $360,000 to settle a class action lawsuit alleging police formed a special unit to target and harass black residents who received subsidized rent. The City Council agreed to settle the three year-old …
Modern health insurance policies and ERISA plans exclude coverage for experimental medical treatments. The question of what types of treatments qualify as experimental is problematic. Adjusting a claim for medical treatment which may be experimental can be a difficult exercise. …
The operator of a website that allegedly streamed live, copyrighted sporting events on the Internet illegally was indicted on Oct. 22, 2011, for criminal infringement of a copyright. According to the indictment, between 2005 and Jan. 31, 2011, Bryan McCarthy, …
A federal judge rules that a scientist who said shoddy levee work caused Hurricane Katrina’s devastating floods wasn’t muzzled by his work for Louisiana State University because he wasn’t speaking as a school employee. Ivor van Heerden filed a whistleblower …
A man who pleaded guilty to playing a role in cases of stolen vehicles and arson in the Madison, S.D., area earlier this fall has been sentenced to three years in prison for that and for a burglary last year. …
Between 2005 and 2010, more than 350 million personal records were exposed in reported data breaches alone. Those numbers include data, privacy and security breaches by cyber-criminals accessing sensitive company and customer information, as well as exposure from lost or …
Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month. The system-wide failure of the service had left tens of millions of …
When one distributor of corporate press releases concluded that a rival was trying to steal its secrets, it didn’t issue a press release, it went to court. MarketwireWednesday filed a $25 million lawsuit accusing rival PR Newswire of causing irreparable …