The Allstate Corporation announced estimated catastrophe losses for the month of March 2012 of $190 million, pre-tax, and an estimated $260 million, pre-tax, for the first quarter of 2012. The first quarter catastrophe losses comprised 15 events at an estimated …
A federal appeals court says an insurance company should have represented a former director of a West Virginia nonprofit organization in a civil lawsuit. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., sided with Bob Graham in a …
The death of a 9-year-old Pomeranian from eating a dog treat is hardly “what nature intended,” according to a lawsuit filed this week. An Illinois man has sued Nestle Purina Petcare Co and Wal-Mart Stores Inc, saying his dog died …
An audit of the $20 billion fund for paying victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill found “significant errors” that led to about 7,300 claimants who were underpaid receiving an extra $64 million, the U.S. Justice Department said …
Almost $3 billion of the $3.2 billion Alabama insurers paid out to their auto, home and business policyholders in 2011 for catastrophe losses can be traced directly to the tornadoes, hail and thunderstorms that swept through the state between April …
A Patrick Henry Community College employee is dead following an accident involving a car and a riding lawnmower. Media outlets report the employee was on the lawnmower when a car hit it Tuesday on the Martinsville campus. The victim was …
The Labor Department has cited two subsidiaries of a Pineville, La.-based company for alleged safety and health violations. The department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Tuesday that it has proposed a total of $72,000 in penalties for Dis-Tran Steel …
A 24-year-old Sioux Falls, S.D., man accused of setting fire to three vans and entering two other vehicles has pleaded not guilty. The Argus Leader reports that Damon First In Trouble was arrested last month after a grand jury indicted …
Turkey’s state-run news agency says a freighter train has rammed into a passenger train at a train station in central Turkey, slightly injuring 12 people. The Anadolu Agency said the accident occurred Wednesday in the town of Ulukisla in Nigde …
Arson charges have been filed against a Will County firefighter and another man who are accused of setting fire to a pickup truck and filing an insurance claim. Authorities say 22-year-old Wilmington firefighter Ronald Armstrong “torched his own vehicle” then …