A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early Sunday on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were virtually blinded. At least 10 people were killed. Visibility was so poor that …
A national bottle-top maker that’s grown weary of some $700 million in asbestos claims it’s paid out to victims of lung disease has arrived in the Idaho Legislature as part of its years-long, state-by-state trudge to shield itself from forking …
If teenagers think it’s tough to get a driver’s license now, just wait. Maine’s secretary of state is spearheading an effort to develop new rules that would make it harder and more time-consuming for teenagers to get their licenses. Some …
Arbitration Forums, Inc. (AF), the nation’s largest provider of inter-insurance dispute resolution services, resolved nearly 520,000 claims disputes valued at more than $2.4 billion in 2011, a new record, said W. Russ Smith, president and chief executive officer of AF, …
The trucking industry may be missing opportunities to reduce the cost of accidents by millions of dollars. That’s the message Luann Dunkerley, CEI’s manager of business development for truck fleet services, told a gathering of private truck fleet executives in …
Maryland’s second highest court has upheld most of a $151,000 jury award against a man sued by his neighbors for shooting two of their pet dogs. Jeffrey Lynn Hurd of Williamsport was sued after shooting one family’s dog in 2007 …
A Hinds County, Miss., judge will decide if governmental agencies are liable for the wounding of a bystander during a 2008 shooting. The Clarion-Ledger reports that Circuit Judge Winston Kidd presided over a four-day trial that ended Thursday. Kidd heard …
U.S. safety regulators have upgraded an investigation into almost 387,000 Jeep Liberty sport utility vehicles for potential inadvertent airbag deployment, increasing the possibility of a recall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was upgrading its investigation of the …
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 jolted eastern Japan on Saturday morning, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage and no tsunami warning was issued. The focus of the tremor was 20 km (12 …
Soon after Mitchell Proner, a New York personal-injury lawyer, heard about the capsizing of the Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy, he sprang into action. Proner, who specializes in motorcycle-accident lawsuits, has never litigated a maritime case. But he …