Monthly Archives: <span>April 2014</span>

Capacity Coverage Affiliate Buys Stake In Tri-Partners Field Claims Services

Capacity Coverage Company of New Jersey, Inc., Fleming & Hall Administrators, Inc. and RCA Insurance Group announced that an affiliate of Capacity Coverage has entered into a strategic investment in Tri-Partners Field Claims Services, LLC. Through this strategic investment, Capacity …

Planned Wall Repair Leads to Suit Over Move of Picasso Painting

New York’s storied Four Seasons restaurant has for decades harbored one of the city’s more unusual artworks: the largest Pablo Picasso painting in the United States. But a plan to move it has touched off a spat as sharply drawn …

Minneapolis McDonald’s Sued After Service Dog Kicked Out

A Minneapolis man with muscular dystrophy is suing the owner of a McDonald’s restaurant as well as the corporation, saying he was the victim of discrimination because he and his service dog were kicked out of the establishment. Robert Mingo, …

Arkansas County Will Get $1.1M in FEMA Funds

U.S. Senator Mark Pryor says Polk County will receive $1.1 million in disaster-relief funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Pryor announced the funding Thursday and said it’s to help the county recover from damage caused by winter storms in …

Seventh Circuit Court: Alcoholic Energy Drinks Excluded From Coverage

Makers of energy drinks have started to include alcoholic content in order to receive a greater market share of the youth in college student market. Unlike regular alcoholic beverages, the new alcoholic plus energy stimulants mixed drinks have been causing …

Paralyzed Florida Teen’s $3.5M Settlement Pends Approval

Aubrey Stewart was standing next to his family’s car three years ago when a massive branch from a city-owned tree suddenly broke and crashed down on him, breaking the then-15-year-old’s spine and leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Jacksonville …

Sunken South Korea Ferry Surrounded by Cargo Questions

Frustrated relatives of the scores of people still missing from the sinking of the ferry Sewol held the fisheries minister and the coast guard chief overnight, angry about the pace of divers who have recovered 183 bodies so far but …

Victims of Wyoming Landslide Recalls Early Signs

The cracks measured 1/16 of an inch wide – about the thickness of a penny – when Jeremy Budge first noticed them in the wooden floor boards between his kitchen and dining room. He thought nothing of it at the …

Mario Andretti’s Former Pennsylvania Home a Total Loss After Fire

A former eastern Pennsylvania home of race car driver Mario Andretti has been gutted by a fire. The state police fire marshal says the blaze was accidentally sparked by a hot lawnmower parked among combustible materials in the garage. Andretti …

Red Cross Gives Oklahoma $48,000 for Storm Shelters

The American Red Cross of Oklahoma is giving $48,000 to Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity to install storm shelters in the homes it builds. The grant announced Thursday is for installation of 20 storm shelters in newly built homes in …