A federal grand jury recently indicted five southeastern Ohio men on charges including theft of public money in an alleged scheme to defraud a federal crop assistance program. All five of the men from Meigs County also were indicted in …
Mack and Kathryn Towery’s new home stands in sharp contrast to much of their neighborhood. The section of Old Saltillo Road just north of the Tupelo city limits shows heavy damage from the April 28 tornado. More than a dozen …
Mobile home residents in Kokomo, Ind., now have someplace to seek temporary shelter from tornados and other severe weather. Fire Chief Pat O’Neill tells the Kokomo Tribune for a Monday story that the city will open all six of its …
A Ohio man was ordered to repay more than $22,000 in connection with improperly receiving workplace injury benefits. Gerald Whitacre pleaded guilty May 15 in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to one count of workers’ compensation fraud, a fifth-degree …
San Diego, CA, 05/28/14 – American Claims Management Inc. (ACM), a national third-party administrator, unveiled its new bill review Provider Portal in April. The Provider Portal was developed by ACM’s bill review partner, Marquee Managed Care Solutions, as a way …
Two men wrongfully accused in a 2006 double murder are going after Douglas County’s liability insurance carrier to recoup a multimillion-dollar judgment against the Nebraska county’s former crime lab chief. Attorneys for Matthew Livers and Nicholas Sampson filed garnishment claims …
The growing zip line industry isn’t regulated by any government authority in Kentucky. The Lexington Herald Leader reports no federal or state agency is charged with keeping track of the safety of the attractions that allow people to “zip” over …
Handling litigated claim files isn’t always easy, but experts at the Risk and Insurance Management Society national conference held in Denver last month provided several tips adjusters can use to strengthen their cases. The panelists: Heath Sherman, a Chicago-based partner …
U.S. regulators are looking into whether there may be a new ignition-switch defect, this one involving older Dodge Ram pickups made by Chrysler Group LLC. There have been three reports of the pickup trucks starting without the clutch being engaged. …
A bankruptcy judge’s decision that a General Motors Co. customer failed to state a valid claim against the estate of so-called Old GM was upheld by a federal judge in Manhattan. Such rulings don’t get overturned unless the court’s findings …