American International Group Inc. is the lead insurer of the TransAsia Airways Corp. passenger plane that crashed near Taiwan’s Magong airport, according to Aon Plc, a broker that tracks the market for aviation coverage. The ATR-72 plane is valued at …
Jurors have determined that the Agape Baptist Church must pay $471,798.50 to a man who was severely burned after setting fire to a pile of trash while working off community service hours. The verdict announced Tuesday in Ocala includes $300,000 …
Gov. Nikki Haley has appointed Mike Campbell to serve on the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission. The Greenville News reported that Haley cited Campbell’s business experience and community involvement in the appointment. Campbell is a business development consultant and is …
Donan, a forensic investigation firm, has opened new offices in San Diego and Los Angeles, Calif. Both locations began offering forensic engineering services July 1. San Diego and Los Angeles are part of a larger westward expansion and follow recent …
The family of a truck driver who died of heart disease weeks after he survived a deadly building collapse in Philadelphia, Pa., filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday linking his death to the catastrophe. Danny C. Johnson, 59, spent an …
Seven former professional football players have filed a court challenge to a tentative class action settlement of concussion claims that would cost the NFL at least $765 million. They argued that some players won’t be fairly compensated under the plan, …
Eric Garner, who died in police custody last week after he was put in an apparent chokehold, was suspected of committing the relatively minor crime of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes on the street. The encounter was an unintended consequence of …
The August retrial of a former BP engineer accused of obstructing justice in an investigation of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been postponed while an appeals court decides whether a judge was right to throw out his …
An advertising banner touting Geico insurance fell from a plane towing it over a San Francisco Bay area city, striking power lines and landing on a home. The San Jose Mercury News reports nobody was hurt. The 45-foot-by-90-foot banner covered …
Esther Mibab felt nervous in her home in The Acreage. So nervous that she kept her accordion-style hurricane shutters closed, even in the off-season. Closed and locked. From the outside. Authorities say that cost her her life. After a fire …