The ongoing insurance fraud investigation known as ‘Operation Leaky Pipes’ has led to the arrests of 12 Miami residents, according to an announcement made by CFO Jeff Atwater. The investigation uncovered a scheme between a licensed public adjuster and a …
Preliminary damage estimates from this week’s warehouse fire in Madison, Wisc., are $1 million to $2 million. Windsor Buildings Systems was destroyed by fire Tuesday. Investigators say the fire apparently started in a maintenance room at Windsor, a company that …
Jitney bus owners in New Jersey face tougher regulations under a new law that followed the death of a baby. Authorities say a jitney driver was using his cellphone when he veered off a street in West New York and …
Legislative leaders say they won’t demand that Oklahoma’s public schools build storm shelters to protect their students, saying such decisions should be left to local officials. Two competing tornado shelter plans are being floated as Oklahoma lawmakers prepare to reconvene …
San Diego, Calif. (Feb. 3, 2014) – Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC, a national multi-line program manager, welcomes John Speckman and Joe Zuk as executive vice presidents of business development. Speckman and Zuk will be located in the new Atlas …
President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma stemming from a severe winter storm in early December. Obama ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts for the Dec. 5-6 storm. Federal funding will be available …
Ambulances responding to emergencies in Austin, Texas, regularly encounter mechanical failures that prevent them from reaching patients or even from departing an EMS station on a call. In an industry in which speed and reliability are crucial barometers of emergency …
An eastern Missouri jury has awarded $12.5 million to a railroad worker who blamed his former company for a train accident that cost him his right leg below the knee. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Jefferson County jury …
The Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. reorganization proposal filed by families of the 47 people who died when one of the railroad’s cars derailed and exploded is “not a serious plan,” according to Robert J. Keach, the Chapter 11 …
The family of a corrections officer killed in January 2011 by an inmate at a Washington state prison in Monroe has sued the state Corrections Department and the prison’s former superintendent. The family of Jayme Biendl contends that system failures …