Latest Case and Growing Trend Say it Must Fall Down or Cave in The scope of insurance coverage for collapse, first provided by the industry in 1954, has long been the subject of litigation in many jurisdictions. The arguments for …
Heavy snow has caused dozens of onion storage sheds in eastern Oregon and Idaho to collapse, resulting in as much as $100 million in damage. About 50 onion buildings collapsed under the weight of up to 40 inches of snow, …
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 knocked over houses in southern Japan on Thursday evening, and police said people may be trapped underneath. There were no immediate reports of casualties from the 9:26 p.m. quake, and no …
Prosecutors have requested the detention of the developers of a high-rise apartment building in southern Taiwan that collapsed over the weekend following a strong earthquake, killing dozens of people, official media said Tuesday. The Tainan District Prosecutors Office said Lin …
With anxious families waiting nearby, rescuers on Sunday painstakingly pulled more survivors from the remains of a high-rise apartment building that collapsed a day earlier in a powerful earthquake that shook southern Taiwan and killed at least 26 people. More …
Jose Francisco Contreras and his wife were driving to the bus he takes to his job at a factory in northern Mexico when the winds picked up and torrential rain began to fall. They tried to turn around and flee, …
The collapse of a 210-year-old building in the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter is raising warning flags about decay and a lack of rigorous inspections in one of America’s oldest and most fragile neighborhoods. No one was injured when …
Emergency crews say a customer remained unaccounted for the morning after a grease fire spread and destroyed a restaurant and lounge in western Pennsylvania. Crews continued to search for the customer Thursday morning in the collapsed ruins of Sharon’s Restaurant …
Federal investigators say overloaded storage bins on the roof of an Omaha, Neb., livestock feed manufacturer’s plant caused the building collapse that killed two people in January. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced its findings Monday and cited International …
A severe thunderstorm packing winds estimated at more than 80 mph injured several people and caused significant damage to homes in western Michigan, prompting flooding Monday, and storms that spawned tornadoes damaged some homes in Iowa. A Michigan thunderstorm intensified …