A Montana judge has invalidated Helena’s 2008 fire ordinance restricting exposed wood building materials and requiring fire-resistant roofs on new or extensively renovated buildings. The Independent Record reports in a story on Sunday that District Judge Kathy Seeley made the …
Okemos, MI, 6/4/13 – NetRate Systems, Inc., a leading supplier of ISO® Commercial Lines Rating software for the MGA and carrier marketplace, has announced the availability of NetPPS, the NetRate Policy Production System module. NetPPS is a program which, in …
Authorities say a central Ohio insurance lawyer was killed when he fell through the roof of a storm-damaged building he was inspecting. The Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office said 44-year-old Michael Anthony Sway died on May 23 when the roof of …
A Davenport, Iowa, family has sued the city, saying raw sewage backed up into the basement of their home during heavy rains last month because the city failed to maintain the municipal sewer system. Ronald and Linda Wiebold filed the …
The magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck central Taiwan Sunday night, June 2, 2013, at 9:43 p.m. local time, in a sparsely populated region of Nantou County just 4.3 miles northeast of a similar rupture only two months ago is unlikely …
Central Europe has been inundated during the past several weeks with heavy and relentless rain, which has resulted in some of the worst floods seen in the area in more than 70 years, according to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide. …
The rating for Louisiana’s Chackbay Volunteer Fire Department is in danger of being lowered but the chief says adjustments will be made to head off an increase in insurance costs for property owners. The Courier reports that during the department’s …
A fire that may have been caused by a lightning strike has caused about $1 million worth of damage to a church in Danville, Ill. Larry Thomason is the public safety director in the town along the Illinois-Indiana state line. …
The DeSoto Parish Sheriff’s Office is searching for three suspects in the theft of about $1 million worth of copper wire from a Frierson, La., company. The Town Talk reports the thefts happened in six separate incidents at Trinidad Drilling …
The parents of a woman killed in a Kansas City restaurant explosion are suing several companies. Megan Cramer died Feb. 19 in a gas explosion that destroyed JJ’s restaurant and injured several other people. A drilling project was underway outside …