North Carolina law enforcement agencies say they will work to crack down on drunken boating as the summer approaches. The “On the Road, On the Water, Don’t Drink and Drive” campaign is about to start its third year of discouraging …
Federal accident investigators were weighing a recommendation Tuesday that states reduce their threshold for drunken driving from the current .08 blood alcohol content to .05, a standard that has been shown to substantially reduce highway deaths in other countries. The …
The administrator of a fund created to help victims of the Boston Marathon bombings has released final guidelines for distributing the money. The document released Wednesday gives top priority to the families of those who died, as well as double …
Two burglars who were convicted of looting the home of a pair of Waldo Canyon fire evacuees have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms. Shane Garrett was sentenced to 48 years in prison, and Belinda Wells-Yates was sentenced to 72 …
Economic losses from disasters since 2000 are in the range of $2.5 trillion, a figure at least 50 percent higher than previous international estimates, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday. The U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction warned in …
Altamonte Springs, FL, 05/17/13 – North American Risk Services, Inc. (NARS), a premier national third-party claims administrator announces its strategic partnership with the Florida-based domestic property insurance company, Weston Insurance Company. Weston Insurance specializes in wind-only coverage for commercial and …
A 39 year old Tacoma woman faces charges on five counts of theft for fraudulently collecting more than $50,000 in workers’ compensation benefits from the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I). According to the Washington State Attorney General’s …
Florida is heading into a new storm season with some good news for once. The state-created fund that backs up private insurers in Florida is in the best financial shape it has been in years – maybe the best since …
Authorities are investigating whether logging operations may have sparked a massive wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin that destroyed dozens of buildings and forced at least 60 people from their homes, state officials said Wednesday. The wildfire has consumed about 8,700 to …
Federal investigators say an aging part fractured and caused a vintage plane to crash into the ocean off Portland Head Light last summer, killing the doctor piloting the aircraft. The National Transportation Safety Board says in its report released earlier …