The Wisconsin State Patrol is participating in a nationwide event designed to prevent large truck crashes. “Brake Safety Week” runs through next Saturday and is sponsored by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance. The State Patrol will intensify its brake inspection …
Owners occupying almost half the units at a luxury apartment building on Singapore’s resort island of Sentosa sued the developer over alleged defects. Ho Bee Investment Ltd. failed to fix termite-infested pool decking and flooded staircases in the common areas …
Christopher Ellison went to a veterans medical center in Philadelphia to get eight teeth extracted in 2007. What should have been a routine dentist visit left him permanently incapacitated. The $17.5 million Ellison and his family received in a malpractice …
Friday marks the anniversary of the costliest hurricane to hit Texas. On September 13, 2008, Hurricane Ike hit Galveston Island. According to Mark Hannah with the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT), insured losses as a result of the storm totaled …
Even a major disaster would be unlikely to push up reinsurance prices given the amount of capital currently available to back policies, said Richard Ward, chief executive officer of Lloyd’s of London. “What is going to change the rate movement? …
More South Carolinians are using seatbelts. A new study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that seatbelt usage in South Carolina increased from 86 percent in South Carolina in 2011 to 90 percent last year. South Carolina’s seatbelt …
Italy has given the go-ahead for an ambitious attempt to set upright the Costa Concordia cruise liner, which went aground near an Italian island in 2012, killing 32 people. The national Civil Protection agency said Friday the operation will be …
State insurance officials say a key component used to determine rates for workers’ compensation insurance is showing a decrease of nearly 15 percent in part because of the Legislature’s passage earlier this year of changes to the workers’ compensation system. …
Tiverton, R.I., police say a man was driving 122 miles per hour in a 35 mile per hour zone seconds before a crash that killed him last month. The Newport Daily News reports it obtained the information after making an …
Billionaire resort operator Jim Justice and the state Department of Environmental Protection announced Friday they have struck a deal to improve a privately owned dam that regulators say presents a potentially deadly flooding hazard to drivers. DEP Secretary Randy Huffman …