The Philadelphia City Council says it plans to form an investigative committee to review city regulations and procedures in the wake of a deadly building collapse. The Council plans to formally announce the creation of the special committee Monday. In …
Oklahoma’s school superintendent says as many as 56 public school sites were damaged by violent storms and floods that ripped through the state in May. Superintendent of Public Instruction Janet Barresi said Friday that three sites in Moore and the …
The average tornado warning in the 1980s went out only after a twister was on the ground. Continuing advances in storm prediction have since enabled forecasters to warn people before a funnel cloud is upon them, giving them precious time …
George Kasimos has almost finished repairing flood damage to his waterfront home, but his Superstorm Sandy nightmare is far from over. Like thousands of others in the hardest-hit coastal stretches of New Jersey and New York, his life is in …
Global insurance telematics subscriptions are expected to grow 81 percent from 5.5 million at the end of 2013 to 107 million in 2018. “With Progressive’s Snapshot having attracted more than 1 million drivers in the U.S. and Octo Telematics already …
Increasing numbers of Indiana adults are becoming victims of dog bites as education efforts in cities like Fort Wayne help teach children proper ways to approach animals they don’t know. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 4.7 …
The large amount of rebar and concrete on the construction site at Hatton High is not there by accident. Instead, it represents a change in how schools are constructed in Alabama. Three years after eight students died when a tornado …
Indiana’s fire deaths have surged to 54 so far this year, giving the state more fire fatalities in just over five months than all of last year – a troubling increase the state’s top fire official said Friday he’s at …
In many states, the insured has a general duty to read the insurance policy. See Practical Tools for Handling Insurance Cases, § 2:28, pp. 43, fn.1 (Thomson Reuters, 2012 Supplement) (citing cases). Other courts have affirmatively rejected a duty to …
Maybe better call that cab, after all: A new University of Florida study found that 35 percent of designated drivers had quaffed alcohol and most had blood alcohol levels high enough to impair their driving. Adam Barry, an assistant professor …