Billing disputes with restoration vendors often involve a common scenario – a water loss prompts an insured’s frantic call to a mitigation company for emergency services. The vendor retained completes the dry out and bills the insured for the work …
Florida Governor Rick Scott has chastised state lawmakers for failing to fully consider a controversial plan to use state premium tax credits to help shore-up the state’s homeowners’ reinsurance fund before attaching it to the state budget. Scott used his …
A Florida company has won the bid to remove the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany. Pompano Beach-based Titan Salvage is expected to begin work that could take a year early next month. Thirty-two passengers and …
Shrimp processors have asked a federal judge to delay preliminary approval of BP Plc’s proposed settlement of economic damage claims from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, arguing that it is unfair to parts of the shrimp industry. The …
An investigation is continuing into the theft of $1.4 million worth of drill pipe ends from a Fort Smith, Ark., warehouse. The Southwest Times Record reports that officers were dispatched Thursday evening to a warehouse used by Enid, Okla.-based Oil …
The federal government is investigating 5,000 school buses from the 2008 model year that could stall without warning. There have been no accidents or injuries reported. But in at least three cases, high-pressure oil lines that connect the oil pump …
A Russian official says that up to 2,000 tons of oil have been spilled at an oil field in Russia’s north. The accident happened at an oil field in the Nenets Autonomous District on Friday when oil workers were working …
The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report in its investigation into a small plane crash that killed the host of a popular fishing show. Jose Wejebe was killed on April 6 after the experimental, amateur-built aircraft he …
Fire officials say a cement plant in Wright County, Minn., is total loss. Firefighters were called to the Knife River Corp. plant in Otsego early Monday and found part of the roof had already collapsed and flames were visible in …
Military service personnel who survive the hazards of war return to face new risks on domestic roadways, according to a study by USAA. According to USAA’s “Returning Warriors” study, troops coming back from deployment had 13 percent more at-fault accidents …