A fire in west Vail, Colo., has forced residents from 11 homes. The fire on Saturday engulfed three single-story homes and caused extensive damage to adjacent homes. Interim Vail fire chief Steve Pischke says four of 11 units suffered extensive …
The Kanawha County Parks and Recreation Commission has settled a civil lawsuit related to a park logging operation after the 2012 derecho. The Charleston Daily Mail reports the commission voted recently to settle the lawsuit filed against David Russell Bowen’s …
The insurance company for the state has asked a judge to declare that it has no duty to pay any award made against the Nebraska State Colleges Board of Trustees in a lawsuit over the 2010 disappearance of a Peru …
Liberty Mutual Insurance announced that is now offering flexible cyber coverages on its commercial package products and monoline general liability policies for small to mid-sized businesses. The new Data Security endorsement provides four optional coverages, each with separate and varying …
A drilling company says a worker killed in an offshore explosion was cleaning a piece of equipment during routine maintenance at its oil-and-gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Houston-based Fieldwood Energy LLC says another worker suffered “visible injury” and …
Could icemakers be next? Most of the options on the brush fire trucks made at Texas-based Steele Fire Apparatus fall into the category of things you might expect. Light towers, electrical inverters, pumps for hydraulic tools, that sort of thing. …
Al Brown still remembers hitting the deer last year, about 10 miles west of Prattville on Alabama 14. “It was a buck, and he came out of nowhere,” Brown said of the November accident that happened at dusk. He was …
Residents living along Mississippi Highway 30 and on several county roads extending off the highway may soon see a reduction in their homeowners insurance after the area was included in the Lafayette County Fire Department’s Central Fire Grading District. Fire …
With an arctic cold surge and heavy snow accumulations in large parts of the United States last week, potential hazards exist for homeowners and drivers alike, according to the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.). A repeat of this past winter’s deep …
Every year around this time, Loyola University Medical Center sports medicine surgeon Dr. Pietro Tonino sees a spike in sprains, contusions, broken bones and other injuries suffered in Thanksgiving pickup football games. Many of these injuries are easily preventable, Tonino …