April 23, 2019
About the photo: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, launches from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Saturday, June 3, 2017. Photo courtesy of NASA. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX has …
March 13, 2019
The company that owned a tourist boat that sank in a Missouri lake has reached a settlement with relatives of two brothers who were among 17 people who died in the accident. The Kansas City Star reports lawyers for Ervin …
March 11, 2019
An Iowa woman who filed a claim for damage that occurred after she purchased an auto insurance policy was convicted last week for felony insurance fraud, according to the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau. Jennifer Lea Fuentes, 43, was arrested …
May 8, 2015
Disparate coverage results for sexual assault claims turned on a one word difference in “personal injury” policy definitions in Gonzalez v. Fire Ins. Exchange (2015) ____Cal.App.4th ____, decided by the Six District California Court of Appeal on February 5, 2015. …
May 25, 2012
A tractor trailer filled with cattle overturned on a Dallas freeway, blocking the road and setting cows loose. Authorities say the accident happened around 1:30 a.m. on May 24 when the driver lost control of the 18-wheeled cattle trailer in …
May 7, 2012
A Texas jury has awarded $24 million to a woman who was hit by a Coca-Cola truck driver who was chatting on a cellphone while driving. The jury decided Friday that 37-year-old Vanice Chatman-Wilson should get $10 million in punitive …
January 31, 2012
A 60-year-old skier has been hospitalized after a fire chief says he suffered “severe trauma” on the slopes of Ragged Mountain Ski Resort in New Hampshire. Resort spokeswoman Stacy Lopes tells The Citizen the skier suffered the injury Sunday morning …
January 19, 2012
Officials are calling for changes to a southwestern North Dakota highway after a bus accident involving a high school basketball team. The bus carrying the Hettinger-Scranton boys’ team was traveling to Dickinson for a game on Friday went it went …
December 28, 2011
A woman is suing a Bluffton bar because a bartender didn’t check her age before serving her on the night of the 2009 wreck that paralyzed her. The Beaufort Gazette reports that Chelsea Hess, who was then 20 years old, …
December 27, 2011
A jury has awarded $1.6 million to a Thomaston man who sued the state Department of Transportation over injuries he suffered in a 2007 accident on an icy road. The Superior Court jury found the state agency was at fault …