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

IAS Claim Services Announces Partnership With SWBC

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 …

BP Wins U.S. Appeals Court Reprieve Over Some Gulf Spill Payments

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 …

Utah Measure Aims to Prevent Overdose Deaths

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 …

Rutgers Revamps Lab Disaster Plans Following Sandy

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 …

Northwest Pennsylvania Powdered Metal Factory Fire ‘Accidental’

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 …

Artist Suing Over Statue of Liberty Stamp Mix-Up

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 …

New York Settling Worker-Insurance Claims With AAA Issue: Muni Deals

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 …

Tesla Says German Agency’s Review Clears Model S Car After Fires

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 …

Dozens Gather to Remember 1958 Parish School Fire

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 …

Mormon Church, Members Not Liable for Girl’s Ankle

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 …