A northern Idaho judge has ordered mediation ahead of a potential trial involving a lawsuit filed by Schweitzer Mountain Resort against a man the resort says slashed chairlift seat covers. The Bonner County Daily Bee reports that Judge Barbara Buchanan …
Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed legislation that would have guaranteed job leaves for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers during emergencies and another bill that would have extended coverage for their injuries in the line of duty outside the areas they regularly …
Several people have been injured after a deck collapsed at a southern Indiana subdivision clubhouse. Maj. Jason Cochran of the New Chapel Fire Department said crews transported seven people to hospitals following the collapse Sunday afternoon in northern Floyd County. …
Organizers of a popular outdoor Lake Tahoe music festival will stress safety at the Dec. 29-31 event after a participant’s death last year. Alyssa Byrne, 19, of Petaluma, Calif., attended the 2012 SnowGlobe Music Festival in South Lake Tahoe, but …
Delaware property owners in communities served by the Bethany Beach Volunteer Fire Company will see their ambulance fee go up in the new year. The Daily Times reports that the communities recently approved an increase in the emergency medical service …
Orlando Attorney Raymond (Ramon) Ismael Melendez of the Melendez Law Firm, P.A. was arrested for allegedly stealing insurance settlement proceeds totaling nearly $80,000 from three personal injury clients, according to an announcement by CFO Jeff Atwater last week. The charges …
Police charged the owners of a Bangladeshi garment factory and 11 employees with culpable homicide Sunday for alleged negligence leading to the death of 112 workers in a raging fire that engulfed the factory last year. It was the first …
In this land of fire and ice, where the fog-shrouded lava fields offer a spooky landscape in which anything might lurk, stories abound of the “hidden folk” – thousands of elves, making their homes in Iceland’s wilderness. So perhaps it …
Farmers Insurance Exchange, 21st Century Insurance Company, Coast National Insurance Company, Mid-Century Insurance Company and Truck Insurance Exchange (“Farmers”) have filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of California against two radiological corporations and their owners alleging they prepared and …
An Ohio man has repaid more than $26,000 to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) after investigators caught him on camera selling firearms out of his home while receiving workers’ comp benefits. Charles Newland pleaded guilty to fraud Dec. …