Monthly Archives: <span>November 2013</span>

Tennessee Focusing on Road Safety

The Governor’s Highway Safety Office and the Tennessee Highway Patrol are reaching out to communities across the state to offer help in reducing traffic fatalities. The Tennessean reports that the agencies are putting more resources in counties that have the …

North Carolina Compounding Pharmacy Recalls Products

A compounding pharmacy in Asheville, N.C., is recalling sterile products because of the possibility of contamination. Nature’s Pharmacy and Compounding Center is voluntarily recalling sterile products produced over a six-month period, The Asheville Citizen-Times reported. The U.S. Food and Drug …

U.S. Safety Agency Opens Probe Into Tesla Fires

The U.S. government’s auto safety watchdog is investigating whether Tesla’s Model S electric car is vulnerable to fires because roadway debris can pierce the car’s underbody and battery. The National Highway Traffic Administration, which announced the probe early Tuesday, is …

Vermont Police Say Cause Unclear in Waterbury Fire

Vermont State Police fire investigators say they don’t know what caused a fire that heavily damaged a building in downtown Waterbury, but it’s not considered suspicious. The fire in the Stowe Street building was reported just after 5 a.m. Tuesday. …

ISO Crowe Paradis Announces Launch of Workers’ Comp Navigator

ISO Crowe Paradis is introducing a new analytic solution at the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference in Las Vegas. WC Navigator – scheduled for release in early 2014 – enables a company to identify potentially volatile workers’ compensation claims …

State Ties Texas Pharmacy to Bacterial Outbreak

State health officials have connected a Central Texas compounding pharmacy to a bacterial outbreak that sickened 17 patients in Corpus Christi hospitals earlier this year. Texas Department of State Health Services spokesman Chris Van Deusen told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times …

Behind the 8 Ball

8 Hidden Claims Headaches for Commercial Insurers and How to Cure Them Grabbing the lion’s share of an insurer’s revenue, claims involves multiple stakeholders, including handlers, underwriters, brokers and lawyers — each with a different perspective, and each with a …

Thousands of Claims Already Filed After Illinois Storms

Two Illinois-based insurers say they’ve received about 6,000 claims so far from Sunday’s tornadoes and they expect that figure to climb. State Farm officials told The (Bloomington) Pantagraph they’ve received about 3,500 claims from customers in Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. …

Delaware Jury Awards $2.4M in Clergy Abuse Case

A federal jury in Delaware awarded $2.4 million Monday to a New Jersey man who claimed he was abused as a boy more than 30 years ago by a cleric who worked in the Archdiocese of New York. Brian Elliott, …

Thieves Take $500,000 Worth of Energy Drinks

Thieves took off about $500,000 worth of Red Bull energy drinks from a South Florida warehouse. The Miami Herald reports the theft occurred sometime over the Veteran’s Day weekend at a modern warehouse that opened just a few months ago …