December 4, 2013
San Antonio-based IAS Claim Services, a national independent insurance claims service provider, announced a new partnership with SWBC. Through this partnership IAS Claim Services will serve as administrators for select SWBC insurance programs providing comprehensive third-party administration services. Services provided …
December 4, 2013
BP Plc won a legal reprieve in its effort to avoid payments to those whose losses were not traceable to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, potentially sparing the oil company of extra costs. BP had agreed in 2012 …
December 4, 2013
A Democratic state representative who has seen family members and former students suffer with addiction is pushing a legislative measure that would grant limited criminal immunity to people who call police to report an overdose. Rep. Carol Spackman Moss of …
December 4, 2013
When Hurricane Sandy knocked out the power to most of New Jersey last year, the lights – and more importantly, the freezers – stayed on at Rutgers University’s Cell and DNA Repository in Piscataway. The lab, which is home to …
December 4, 2013
A state police fire marshal says a fire that caused $350,000 damage to a northwestern Pennsylvania factory was accidental. The Bradford Era reports the fire at CamCo Diversified in St. Marys started shortly before 9 p.m. Friday when ashes from …
December 4, 2013
An embarrassing mistake involving a Statue of Liberty stamp is coming back to haunt the U.S. Postal Service. The stamp design released in 2011 was not based on the statue in New York Harbor, as intended, but on a replica …
December 3, 2013
The New York Dormitory Authority is borrowing $370 million this week to repay workers’ compensation claims, the first sale under a regulatory overhaul that Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo said will save $1.2 billion. The issue is the first of as …
December 3, 2013
Tesla Motors Inc.’s Model S, the electric car being investigated for a possible U.S. recall, was cleared of any safety defect in a review by Germany’s transportation regulator, the company said. Tesla had been asked to provide technical data to …
December 3, 2013
About 150 people attended a special Mass in Chicago to mark the 55th anniversary of a school fire that killed 95 people. Survivors and relatives of people who died in the swift-moving fire attended Sunday’s service at Holy Family Church …
December 3, 2013
Neither the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints nor its members can be held liable for injuries suffered by a child who hurt herself on a church-organized outing in Idaho. The Idaho Supreme Court ruled last week neither the …