Updated: March 18, 2010, 11:53 am EDT
U.S. Offers Grants for Research Using Weather Data to Improve Road Safety
The U.S. Department of Transportation will sponsor up to seven innovative ideas for using the new Clarus live weather information system to improve roadway safety during severe ...
Toyota Facing Possible Triple Damages in Consumer Resale Value Suits
Lawyers seeking civil damages against Toyota Motor Corp. on behalf of U.S. consumers for diminished resale value of recalled vehicles are broadening their cases to add ...
Oprah Winfrey Due in Philadelphia for Defamation Trial
Talk show host and media magnate Oprah Winfrey is expected to spend two weeks defending herself at trial in a defamation case linked to the sex-abuse scandal at her girls ...
Partying Teens Cause $200K Damage to New York House
New York police say dozens of partying teenagers caused more than $200,000 in damage at an unoccupied house in suburban Albany.
Police in North Greenbush say the damage was ...
New Jersey Officials Say Storm Badly Eroded Some Beaches
New Jersey environmental officials say the weekend's fierce rain and wind storm caused extensive erosion to beaches in Ocean and Monmouth counties.
The Department of ...
Virginia Fills 43,000 Potholes in 2 Weeks
Virginia Department of Transportation crews have patched, repaired or filled more than 43,000 potholes since March 1, the first day of its pothole blitz.
Gov. Bob McDonnell ...
Connecticut AG Wants Crackdown on Worker Misclassification
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is heralding recommendations of a state commission that would crackdown on companies that illegally misclassify employees as ...
Indiana BMV to Make All License Plate Numbers Unique
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles is dropping its practice of issuing duplicate license plate numbers for different types of vehicles.
Agency spokesman Dennis Rosebrough ...
Nebraska County Rejects $1M Claim in Bus Collision
The Lancaster County Board has rejected a $1 million claim from the driver of a pickup that collided with a Norris, Neb., school bus last summer.
Jeffery Hall says he suffered ...
Alabama Jury Awards $2.6M to Patient Ignored by Home Health Service
A jury has awarded $2.65 million to a man who was stranded in his bed for four days by home health care workers.
Fifty-five-year-old Nathan Ballard sued Gentiva Health Services ...
Cause of Fatal Bus Crash in Texas Unknown
A crowded bus carrying young families and spring breakers toward Mexico went careening off a Texas highway and flipped onto its side on March 16, killing two people and forcing ...
Appeals Court Sides with Texas Mutual on Sanctions in Work Comp Case
The Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas issued an opinion on March 16, 2010, ruling that sanctions imposed against Texas Mutual Insurance Company related to a ...
Oregon Workplace Deaths at Record Low
Thirty-one people covered by the Oregon's workers' compensation system died on the job during 2009, the Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) announced. That ...
Trucking Led To $480 Million in Calif. Workers' Comp Payments
Injuries in the trucking industry led to more than $480 million in workers' compensation medical and indemnity payments, according to the California Workers' Compensation ...
YouTube Video Leads To Calif. Auto Insurance Fraud Arrest
California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that on March 5, Jay Xi Chen and his sister, Tracy Chen Chen, both of Diamond Bar, Calif., were arrested at their ...
XL Estimates Chile Quake, Xynthia Losses at $160 to $230 Million
XL Capital Ltd's preliminary net loss estimates for the earthquake in Chile and European Windstorm Xynthia indicated they will total between $160 and $230 million.
Preliminary ...
SCOR's Preliminary Quake, Storm Loss Estimates Around $130 Million
French reinsurer SCOR Group announced that based on preliminary estimates, it expects its related costs from the earthquake in Chile and Windstorm Xynthia to be approximately ...
American Claims Management Announces New Business Relationship With Starr Indemnity
San Diego, CA, 03/15/10 - American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM) announced a new business relationship with Starr Indemnity & Liability Company (Starr Indemnity), a wholly ...
A.M. Best B+ (Good) Rated Contractor GL Insurance Carrier Expanding to 35 States
National Contractors Insurance Company, Inc., a Risk Retention Group ("NCIC"), A.M. Best Rated B+ (Good), is expanding from 25 to 35 states, with their Commercial General ...
Insurance and the Internet
It seems like every day we hear about the Internet and how some sort of new online social networking site or service will revolutionize the way people communicate, collaborate, ...


