In Florida, plaintiff’s counsels routinely file motions to compel appraisal. Some trial judges were granting these motions without any consideration of the insurance carriers’ affirmative defenses related to an insured’s failure to comply with the policy’s post-loss obligations. In 2011, …
A top British medical expert says faulty French-made breast implants do not pose any long-term health problems to women even if they rupture. The implants made by the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese were pulled from the market last …
Commercial buses and trucks traveling through Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park this summer may be subjected to safety checks. The inspections are designed to ensure the safe operation and mechanical soundness of such vehicles on Yellowstone’s roadways. They are done to …
The scheme unraveled one afternoon in the office of a Southeast Portland, Ore., plastics plant. Karen Riddle was whittling down a stack of paperwork when she came across a check stub to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. The medical facility wasn’t a …
A Brooklyn, N.Y., board-certified colorectal surgeon, who owned and operated a New York medical clinic, was convicted for his role in a fraud scheme that billed Medicare and numerous private insurance companies for surgeries and other complex medical procedures that …
Alpha Natural Resources has significantly cut its accident and injury rates in the six months since a landmark $210 million settlement that spared the company criminal charges over the 2010 mine explosion that killed 29 workers, federal prosecutors say. Alpha …
The Charleston, S.C., fire department is gathering to remember nine firefighters killed while fighting a furniture store blaze. The department says it’s organizing a public memorial Monday at the site of the former flagship location for the Sofa Super Store …
Some 1.4 million Toyota Motor Corp vehicles are being scrutinized more closely by U.S. safety regulators looking for possible increased fire risk, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday. The expanded probe includes the manufacturer’s best-selling Camry sedan …
Samsonite, the world’s biggest luggage maker, is to replace the handles on its American Tourister brand’s Tokyo Chic inventory, amid claims some products contained high levels of chemicals that may be carcinogenic. Samsonite, which targets the mid to upper end …
An Illinois man conquered both fire and ice while working in one of the world’s coldest regions. Quincy resident Alan Munger took an eight-month unpaid sabbatical from his post at a fire department in Quincy to work in Antarctica, the …