Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against an Aberdeen, S.D., man accused of filing false crop insurance claims. However, 53-year-old Nicholas Berbos has been fined $250,000 for attempting to bribe a witness. Authorities say Berbos offered extra employment benefits to a …
BP PLC estimated in 2010 that it faced about $40 billion in potential liabilities from the Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 workers and spilled oil into the Gulf of Mexico for months. Now its shares are suffering as the …
Parents of football players at a Montgomery County school are furious after some of the boys suffered first- and second-degree burns from a powerful cleaning agent. Fifteen players at Springbrook High School in Silver Spring reported getting burns or rashes …
Federal inspectors issued more than 100 citations during inspections at U.S. mine operations in August. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration said Wednesday that the inspections of a dozen coal mines also resulted in 131 citations and 11 orders. …
A soccer ball kicked into the crowd at a Las Vegas concert has bounced back to Rod Stewart in the form of a lawsuit by a Southern California man who says he has lingering injuries after his nose was broken. …
A 1-percent surcharge now in place on most insurance bills in Florida will be removed next summer. The board of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. voted on Wednesday to end an emergency assessment two years earlier than anticipated. Citizens has been …
A Montgomery County police officer has been charged with perjury and workers’ compensation fraud. Gilbert Payne was charged Tuesday in Baltimore City Circuit Court. The 40-year-old Payne didn’t respond to a message seeking comment at his home Tuesday. Maryland’s state …
A well-known boxer is dead after a Wichita, Kansas, industrial accident in which a 6-ton tank shifted unexpectedly and fell on him while he was sandblasting it. The Wichita Eagle reports the man, 22-year-old Tony Losey, was under a tarp …
An investigation by the Oklahoma Insurance Department’s Anti-Fraud Unit has led to the arrest of former insurance agent Nathan Sullivan, Jr., 47. Sullivan is accused of defrauding a Weatherford woman out of more than $30,000 and leaving her with a …
Those looking for jobs within the insurance industry should focus on employment opportunities within technology, underwriting and claims departments, according to the latest survey conducted by Jacobson Group and Ward Group. The Insurance Labor Market survey, conducted in the third …