Before Hurricane Sandy hit, private U.S. property/casualty insurers’ net income after taxes grew to $27 billion in nine-months 2012 from $8.4 billion in nine-months 2011. Insurers’ overall profitability as measured by their annualized rate of return on average policyholders’ surplus …
“Three Cups of Tea” co-author Greg Mortenson and his charity are suing their insurer to cover the cost of defending their legal woes of the past 18 months. Mortenson and the Central Asia Institute say in their federal lawsuit that …
Nine people have filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Bovina, accusing a former police chief and other city officials of a pattern of harassment and extortion. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Amarillo last Friday …
A settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of an Arizona man who died in 2009 after a southern Utah police officer shocked him with a Taser, lawyers for both sides said. The parties …
Vega Helmet Corp. is recalling more than 30,000 XTS motorcycle helmets after testing found that a few did not meet crash protection safety standards. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said people using the helmets may not be adequately protected …
The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has released a video that instructs people on what to do in the event of a shooting like the one at an elementary school in Connecticut. Gov. Robert Bentley asked Alabama Homeland Security officials …
A Nebraska highway safety official says discussions are afoot for legislation next year that would make it a primary offense to text while driving, KRVN-AM radio in Lexington said. Nebraska Highway Safety Administrator Fred Zwonechek is eyeing at least two …
Most of the time, the windowless building with the dome-shaped roof will be a typical high school gymnasium filled with cheering fans watching basketball and volleyball games. But come hurricane season, the structure that resembles a miniature version of the …
The family of an 11-year-old boy who was killed while sledding at a Grand Haven, Michigan park is blaming a part-time groundskeeper. Chance Nash of Nunica died in 2009 when he struck a branch that had fallen at Duncan Park. …
A lawyer who wants to sue Connecticut for $100 million on behalf of a 6-year-old survivor of the Newtown school shooting says the potential claim is about improving school security, not money. Attorney Irving Pinsky said the claim is “about …