Sometimes an alternate method is needed for both sides to consider the time, costs and frustration that can accompany a lingering claim. Mediation is one alternative to taking a case all the way through trial. Lee Jay Berman, a mediator …
EBay Inc said that hackers raided its network three months ago, accessing some 145 million user records in what is poised to go down as one of the biggest data breaches in history, based on the number of accounts compromised. …
Gov. Bobby Jindal has agreed to ban speed cameras and other automated speed enforcement devices on Louisiana’s interstates. Sulphur Rep. Mike Danahay, a Democrat, sponsored the prohibition bill, saying it was in response to a private company approaching municipalities to …
Katie Mueda’s life changed in an instant in 2011. One minute she was on the soccer field, and sports were her life. The next, a ball collided with her head, spelling the end of contact sports for the now 16-year-old …
New data from the Mississippi Office of Highway Safety shows the observed belt usage rate is at 74.4 percent. That’s compared to 83 percent in 2012, officials said Tuesday in a news release. Fatalities also increased last year. In 2013, …
Fire investigators say spontaneous combustion may be the cause of a railcar fire in southwestern Arkansas. De Queen and Gillham fire departments responded Sunday to a fire on a Kansas City Southern Railway train. The railcar was moved to a …
A central Iowa couple have filed a lawsuit over the fire threat they say is posed by thousands of corn stover bales stored across a road from their home. The Des Moines Register says Burdell and Barbara Clark are suing …
A former St. Louis police officer’s $7.5 million damage award in a sexual harassment case could be in jeopardy due to a juror’s unauthorized Google search. Tanisha Ross-Paige won $300,000 in compensatory damages and $7.2 million in punitive damages from …
A new Minnesota law aims to protect the state from hazards created by increasing amounts of oil passing through Minnesota by rail and pipeline. Gov. Mark Dayton signed the bill Tuesday. The law requires railroad and oil pipeline companies operating …
A hearings officer, who has since been removed from hearing cases, is alleging that the chief deputy to Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler tried to improperly influence her decisions. But Kreidler’s office says that chief presiding officer Patricia Petersen was …