The University of Minnesota is experimenting with a reflective film on campus windows in Minneapolis and St. Paul to see whether it can deter birds from colliding with the glass. A research team from the San Diego Zoo this summer …
Chinese authorities blamed freak weather for the capsizing of a cruise ship that killed hundreds earlier this year, but also recommended that the captain be further investigated and representatives of the shipping company and local authorities be punished for management …
When Lomor Drive flooded in 1996, 3 feet of water washed into Diana Bach’s house. She and her late husband, Gene, spent $30,000 to raise the home 4 feet. But last week’s flood waters covered her front yard and driveway …
An Evansville couple is keeping up a decadelong legal fight over their claims of medical malpractice in their daughter’s birth that left her a quadriplegic and unable to speak. A Vanderburgh County jury in 2013 awarded $15 million in damages …
Officials raised the number of tornadoes that swept across North Texas over the weekend to 10, with preliminary figures showing the twisters caused $1.2 billion worth of insured damage. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the Insurance Council of Texas …
Bicyclists can get little respect on the road – from drivers, pedestrians, even fellow cyclists. Sometimes the angry stares are deserved, but more often the friction stems from the fact that bicycles, cars, buses, trucks and pedestrians are scrabbling with …
The costliest global natural catastrophe for the insurance industry in 2015 was the series of winter storms that struck the northeast United States and Canada, according to Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. In the U.S., 2015 estimated natural catastrophe losses totaled …
A year that bounced from drought to flooding, back to drought and then to flooding again finished as the wettest year on record in Oklahoma. State Climatologist Gary McManus said Saturday that 2015 ended with a statewide average of 53.88 …
A civil trial set to start this month in New York City will test the legal boundaries of hundreds of claims remaining against General Motors Co. stemming from faulty ignition switches. The case involves an Oklahoma man who blames a …
The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that laws protecting consumers from deceptive practices don’t apply to insurance company repair estimates. The court made that ruling on Tuesday in the case involving a Columbus insurer, voting 5-2 to overturn a lower …