President Barack Obama has declared 11 counties in Illinois as disaster areas after last month’s flooding. Obama signed the disaster declaration on Friday, giving the counties access to federal aid for recovery efforts. Severe storms, flooding and winds hit Illinois …
A bill converting the nonprofit CompSource Oklahoma into an independent mutual company was passed by the House and Senate and sent to the governor for her signature. CompSource writes about one-third of Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation policies. Under House Bill 2201, …
Lamar, Miss., school district officials said a Feb. 10 tornado caused $7 million in damage to Oak Grove High and its baseball and football facilities. The Hattiesburg-American reports the district has a $50,000 insurance deductible it hopes to have covered …
Nearly three weeks after a Bangladesh garment factory building collapsed, the search for the dead ended Monday at the site of the worst disaster in the history of the global garment industry. The death toll: 1,127. Mohammed Amir Hossain Mazumder, …
With another extreme Western fire season predicted, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell are visiting the National Interagency Fire Center to discuss what their agencies are doing to prepare. Even before Monday’s visit, weather forecasters at …
A Stafford County, Va., doctor has been charged with 95 felony counts, including involuntary manslaughter in the death of a patient. Media outlets report that Dr. Nibedita Mohanty, 54, was arrested Friday for allegedly prescribing tens of thousands of doses …
Kemper Corporation announced that effective May 20, 2013, Elizabeth “Libbie” Bock will join Kemper as the chief financial officer for its Property & Casualty Group. In her new role, Bock will report to Denise I. Lynch, Kemper’s Property & Casualty …
In 2013, Progressive Insurance will open nine new service centers across the country, taking the total count to 63. Progressive will open locations all over the country in 2013: Silver Spring, Md. Malvern, Pa. South Plainfield, N.J. Pasadena, Calif. La …
The old saying that “what goes up must come down” doesn’t apply to carbon dioxide pollution in the air, which just hit an unnerving milestone. The chief greenhouse gas was measured Thursday at 400 parts per million in Hawaii, a …
Cranes and bulldozers have joined seagulls and surf as the new sounds of summer in the Jersey shore town that was the hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy. Workers have started demolishing the first of 50 storm-damaged homes in Mantoloking, where …