A Utah judge heard arguments Monday in a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages for hundreds of people who say they were wrongly arrested by a disgraced former state trooper. Lawyer Robert Sykes said the bogus drunken-driving stops by …
A section of roof at a Massachusetts music store that’s home to a rhinestone-covered grand piano once owned by Liberace has collapsed under the weight of snow. Rockland Fire Chief Scott Duffey says a roughly 100-foot-by-100-foot section of the pitched …
The state of Ohio is proposing more fines for distracted driving, with the money going to help subsidize driver’s education courses for those who can’t afford them. The Columbus Dispatch reports that the Drive Toward a Safer Ohio initiative is …
Authorities say a fire has caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to three boats stored at a facility on Buffalo’s Lake Erie waterfront. Fire dispatch officials tell The Buffalo News that the blaze was reported around 6 a.m. …
In 2014, winter storms caused $2.3 billion in insured losses, second only to damage caused by severe thunderstorms, according to Munich Re. “Severe winter weather caused 15 percent of all insured auto, home and business catastrophe losses in the United …
Trinity Industries Inc.’s guardrail system, which has come under scrutiny for locking when hit and piercing cars instead of helping them slow, passed the first four of eight government-mandated crash tests, a federal highway agency said. The Federal Highway Administration …
Bruce Jenner was not texting while driving when he got into a chain-reaction crash in Malibu, Calif., that left a woman dead, and he will provide cellphone records if requested by investigators looking into the cause of the weekend accident, …
An 80-room Tupelo, Miss., hotel demolished because of heavy damage from the tornado last April will be replaced by a larger hotel – one with the Hilton brand. A 108-room Home2 Suites will be built where the Comfort Suites once …
A SandRidge Energy injection well has been ordered shut down because of numerous earthquakes near the well in north-central Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission issued the order after a 4.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded in the area. The well is …
Predictive modeling has notably increased in value across several areas of property/ casualty insurers’ business over the past six years, according to global professional services company Towers Watson’s annual Predictive Modeling Survey. The web-based survey of U.S. and Canadian P&C …