Jim Rexroth knows what happens when drivers don’t pay attention to large farm equipment traveling on rural roads. The Lower Windsor Township farmer and his employees at Rexroth Farms have been involved in “small fender benders” several times in the …
Insurance companies may negotiate with their policyholder a settlement of a coverage dispute through a coverage buyback agreement. In this situation, after a potentially non-covered loss has taken place, a settlement of the coverage dispute is negotiated whereby the insurance …
China’s state news agency says a head-on collision between a truck and a tour bus outside Shanghai has killed at least 13 people and injured many more. Many of the dead in Sunday morning’s accident were tourists on their way …
Locomotives on Sunday towed away two trains involved in a head-on collision that seriously wounded 42 people in the Netherlands, which the head of the Dutch rail network described as one of the worst train crashes in the country’s recent …
A jury has awarded $14.6 million to seven people hurt in an explosion at a now closed ConAgra Slim Jim factory in Garner, N.C. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports a Johnston County jury gave more than $12 million …
The North Carolina Industrial Commission is cracking down on companies that fail to carry insurance to pay the claims of injured workers. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that more than a dozen businesses have been ordered to attend …
The owner of a Maine medical equipment supply company has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for health care fraud and for lying on an application for a loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration. Peter Enzinger was …
The nation’s premier worker safety agency is taking too long to develop regulations to protect workers from dangerous chemicals and other on-the-job hazards, government auditors reported recently. The Government Accountability Office found it takes an average of nearly eight years …
When fishermen returned to the deep reefs of the Gulf of Mexico weeks after BP’s gushing oil well was capped, they started catching grouper and red snapper with large open sores and strange black streaks, lesions they said they’d never …
A trial is under way in the case of a man who claims he was wrongfully fired from his job cleaning up a 2010 pipeline rupture that spilled more than 800,000 gallons of oil in southern Michigan. John Bolenbaugh of …