Medical professional liability insurers have been performing well for the past several years, but the industry’s profitability will likely deteriorate over the next three years, according to a new study by Conning. “For the past several years, medical liability insurers …
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, after rapidly dissipating on Monday night and being downgraded to a remnant tropical low, Manuel reformed and strengthened back to hurricane intensity on Wednesday. The re-formation was aided by a reduction in wind …
Ten years after work started on the Sioux Falls, S.D., levee system, the city’s getting about $10 million from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The public works director says the project was a partnership between the city and corps. …
She’s just three years old and already she is a valued arson investigator with the Illinois State Fire Marshal’s office. Her name is Zoe and on Tuesday, the office introduced her along with her new partner, Mitch Kushner. A news …
Half of Louisiana’s parishes are too dry to allow private burning, say State Fire Marshal H. Butch Browning and Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain. They ordered a burn ban in 32 parishes, starting at 3 p.m. Wednesday. The order …
Myrtle Beach, S.C., will consider revising rules on parasailing bringing them in line with new international standards. The Sun News reports Wednesday that the city’s Beach Advisory Committee is suggesting Myrtle Beach use international standards adopted earlier this year. The …
Add cruise control and speed limiters to the growing list of technological conveniences that cut both ways on the road. New details from a French study show that using cruise control – and to a lesser degree limiters on speed …
Authorities in Oklahoma on Tuesday recovered two vehicles from a lake that contain the bodies of five people who may have been missing for decades. The cars recovered from Foss Lake in western Oklahoma may solve cold cases from the …
Just days after it won a stronger legal shield from Missouri lawmakers, The Doe Run Lead Co. has settled several lawsuits alleging children suffered health problems from lead contamination in St. Francois County. Attorneys for the plaintiffs and Doe Run …
The latest wrongful-death lawsuit filed in a building collapse that killed six people says “a mountain of facts,” including photos and emails, show the disaster was predicted and preventable. City Treasurer Nancy Winkler and her husband, John “Jay” Bryan, sued …