U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller is seeking more funding for the U.S. Chemical Safety Board following a spill in West Virginia that tainted the water supply for about 300,000 residents. Rockefeller says in a news release that he has asked the …
Governments may have to extract vast amounts of greenhouse gases from the air by 2100 to achieve a target for limiting global warming, backed by trillion-dollar shifts towards clean energy, a draft U.N. report showed on Wednesday. A 29-page summary …
Companies that help Target Corp process payments could face millions of dollars in fines and costs resulting from the unprecedented data breach that struck the retailer over the holiday shopping season. Investigators are still sorting through just how thieves compromised …
The Colorado Court of Appeals recently held that before an insurance company can invoke an insurance policy voluntary payment clause as a defense to the insurer’s obligation to pay for an unnoticed settlement, that the insurer was required to prove …
The next iteration of the Semi-Annual U.S. Insurance Labor Outlook Study, conducted by The Jacobson Group and Ward Group, an Aon Hewitt company, is to begin on January 13 and close on January 29, 2014. In its fifth year, the …
Recognizing the complexity and difficulty of their jobs, Acrometis has launched a “Year of the Adjuster” salute to workers’ compensation adjusters. “Comp adjusters handle more complicated claims with more bills, more deadlines, more potential penalties, and have more people involved …
Authorities arrested a pair of men accused of cruising down the Harvey Canal in a boat and stealing 14,200 pounds of steel from a Louisiana recycling company. Jefferson Parish deputies say 48-year-old Clyde Perez and 28-year-old Kurt Frickey, both of …
A broken water pipe at the Sherburne Memorial Library in Killington, Vt., has damaged historical items ruined $10,000 in electronics. Water poured from a ceiling onto a wooden cabinet, damaging diaries, schoolbooks, a baptismal gown, a quilt, and other items …
A woman can sue the North Las Vegas police for killing her 70-pound pit bull and 140-pound mastiff dogs while they executed a search warrant at her home in 2008, an appeals court said. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of …
The city of South Miami will pay $90,000 to a man whose daughter’s 15th birthday party was ruined when police officers handcuffed him and took him to a patrol car. The city recently agreed to settle the case which began …