The water has gone down but the need for volunteers to clean up damaged homes remains high in a south-central Missouri county swamped by last month’s floods. The Pulaski County town of Waynesville was among the hardest hit amid several …
A quarter century after September snows extinguished the most widespread fires in Yellowstone National Park’s history, the regeneration of the park’s forests remains in its infancy. The post-1988 forests are not recovered or more in balance, park ecologist Roy Rankin …
A former FBI director recommended that the Justice Department investigate whether several lawyers plotted to corrupt the settlement program designed to compensate victims of BP’s 2010 Gulf oil spill. But the independent probe led by Louis Freeh didn’t find any …
Three women serving Malaysian cuisine were burned Saturday in a cooking accident at a street festival in eastern Pennsylvania. The women were working in a food tent at VegFest in Bethlehem when a fire broke out, setting the tent ablaze. …
The bankrupt railroad whose runaway train sparked a fire and explosion that killed 47 people in Quebec could be sold by year’s end, the company’s trustee said Thursday. Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway has made no secret that its sale …
A gigantic wildfire in and around Yosemite National Park was caused by an illegal fire set by a hunter, the U.S. Forest Service said Thursday. The agency said there is no indication the hunter was involved with illegal marijuana cultivation, …
“Contractors’ equipment is more than twice as likely to be stolen than damaged or lost due to vandalism, fire, collision or weather-related events,” said Bob Opitz, vice president and worldwide inland marine manager for the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies. …
New studies from Cambridge-based Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) says the average price paid for physician-dispensed Vicodin, a commonly dispensed narcotic pain medication in Maryland and Pennsylvania, was three times more than the price paid for the same drug dispensed …
Mitchell andGuidewire Software, Inc. announced their strategic alliance to co-develop an advanced level of integration between Guidewire’s core claims management system and Mitchell’s expert adjusting and workflow solutions in North America. The resulting unified claims environment will help insurers optimize …
Reinsurers may fail to increase rates they charge primary carriers for their backstop coverage when they begin price talks for 2014 in Monte Carlo this week. “I expect the market staying flat to ticking down, on the absolute premium,” Amer …