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

Crawford & Company Names Carden SVP and Controller

Atlanta-based Crawford & Company announced that it has named Dalerick Carden to the position of senior vice president, chief accounting officer and corporate controller, effective October 10. Previously he held the position of senior vice president and international controller with …

Settlement Reached in Missouri Traffic Camera Lawsuit

Hundreds of thousands of people who got tickets when their vehicles were photographed running red lights in Missouri could be in line to get some money back, under a proposed legal settlement announced on Sept. 26. Attorneys for ticketed drivers …

Montana Court Hears Arguments In Jury Award Cap Case

The Montana Supreme Court heard arguments Friday in an appeal of a case that could determine whether the state’s $10 million cap on jury awards for punitive damages will stand. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported attorneys debated before the court …

Fatigued Drivers Recover Better With Caffeine Than With Music

Research has shown that drinking caffeinated beverages and listening to music are two popular fatigue-fighting measures that drivers take, but very few studies have tested the usefulness of those measures. New research to be presented at the HFES 2014 Annual …

Litigation Project Management: Building Your Homeowners Insurance Litigation Skyscraper

Series Summary Insurance executives should be asking a lot of questions right now. They should wonder why their outside law firms haven’t adopted available technology that could eliminate expenses for routine legal work. They should ask their law firms why, …

Florida Fire Station Considered Nation’s Busiest

It’s 8:15 p.m. and the four-member crew of Fort Lauderdale Fire Department Engine 8 has just made its way back to the firehouse after two back-to-back calls – one where an SUV plowed into a store and another where a …

U.S. Hospitals Not Prepared to Handle Ebola Waste

U.S. hospitals may be unprepared to safely dispose of the infectious waste generated by any Ebola virus disease patient to arrive unannounced in the country, potentially putting the wider community at risk, biosafety experts said. Waste management companies are refusing …

Studies Attribute 2013 Wild Weather to Global Warming

Scientists looking at 16 cases of wild weather around the world last year see the fingerprints of man-made global warming on more than half of them. Researchers found that climate change increased the odds of nine extremes: Heat waves in …

More Bodies Recovered Near Japan Volcano; Toll now 36

Five more bodies were found near the summit of a Japanese volcano on Monday, bringing the total presumed dead to 36, police said, as toxic gases and ash from the still-erupting mountain forced rescue workers to halt efforts to recover …

Utah Flooding Damages Homes, Sends Car Plunging Into River

Heavy rain swamped much of Utah over the weekend, shutting down a sewage treatment plant, damaging homes and causing a moving car to plunge into a river. In southern Utah, a man and woman from Italy were returning to their …