North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrest of five people accused of engaging in an insurance fraud scheme involving staged auto accidents. Jaime Farrah Boxley, Christa Sharif Smith, Deanna Liles Smith and Lashaunnette Mary Smith was charged with …
A bill to convert Oklahoma’s Workers’ Compensation Court into an administrative system cleared its first hurdle and is now headed to the full Senate for consideration. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 8-2 Tuesday for the 260-page Administrative Workers’ Compensation Act …
Missouri senators want to create an online database for businesses to check whether prospective employees have a history of filing workers’ compensation claims. SB34 was given first-round approval Tuesday drew support from both Republicans and Democrats who said they hope …
Federal authorities say they’re investigating the collapse of a construction crane in the middle of the downtown business and entertainment district in Saratoga Springs. No one was injured when the crane toppled over Tuesday afternoon at a hotel construction site …
Traffic fatalities rose 5 percent last year, according to an analysis of preliminary state data, reversing a seven-year decline in which the number of annual traffic deaths reached their lowest level in more than six decades. An estimated 36,200 people …
A lawsuit filed by New Jersey officials against an insurance company will not affect payment of a settlement to the families of three college-bound friends who were murdered in a Newark schoolyard in 2007. The Star-Ledger of Newark reports the …
The state agency that decides how thousands of people are compensated for workplace injuries does a poor job of making sure companies obey a law requiring them to carry insurance, the state’s internal government watchdog reported Tuesday. The North Carolina …
What’s the trick to helping figure out winter weather on the U.S. mainland? One way, according to meteorologists, is sending a hurricane hunter aircraft from Alaska or Hawaii to fly reconnaissance over the Pacific Ocean. For about 15 years, the …
Top Florida lawmakers are running out of patience with the state’s four-decade old no-fault automobile insurance system that has already cost policyholders several hundred millions of dollars as a result of rampant fraud. Senate President Don Gaetz is among those …
A New Year’s Day fire that killed two University of Cincinnati students helped prompt legislation Tuesday that would require enhanced smoke detectors at rental properties. Cincinnati Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls and city Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld filed the proposed ordinance, which …