State Farm Says It Warned U.S. Officials About Toyota Accident Trend in 2007

Private insurer State Farm informed a U.S. government regulator of a worrying trend of vehicle-caused accidents involving Toyota Motor Corp. as far back as late 2007, an official at the company said. “When you start to see significant claims activity that indicates that there may be widespread problems with a product, ...

A federal court jury in St. Louis, Mo., has ordered the German conglomerate Bayer CropScience to pay $1.5 million to farmers in Arkansas and Mississippi whose rice seed was ...

An explosion at an under-construction energy plant in Central Connecticut has killed at least five workers and injured 12 others, prompting a major emergency response by local ...

Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C. were particularly battered by a weekend snowstorm that caused massive power outages and resulted in moderate structural damage to areas ...

Fire investigators need to test samples from a Rhode Island home before announcing the cause of a blaze that killed five people, including a 7-month-old girl. State Fire ...

The Nebraska Supreme Court on Feb. 5 upheld a decision ordering two insurance companies to pay about $550,000 of the cost of cleaning up industrial contamination in ...

Crime prevention takes more than the work of law enforcement officers. Mississippi citizens are also doing their part through a program called Crime Stoppers. The Golden ...

A federal judge has awarded $1.6 million to a family whose infant daughter was killed after an Army soldier hit their car, which was stopped along the side of the Western ...

A Jefferson County, Alabama jury has awarded a former stripper $100,000 in a lawsuit in which she claimed the club that employed her failed to stop her from driving home after ...

Kingsport, Tennesee's Board of Education has reached a settlement in a lawsuit that alleged a former high school student was harassed and threatened because of this Arab ...

The insurance company sued by billionaire booster T. Boone Pickens and Oklahoma State University's athletic fundraising foundation claims the university breached its contract ...

Insurance proceeds from flood damage at Arkansas' Tyson Foods plant in Jefferson, Wis., helped boost the company's bottom line in the fiscal first quarter. The meat ...

The Montana Supreme Court has upheld an $80,000 fine against a former Bankers Life and Casualty Co. agent in Troy who defrauded two elderly women. The court affirmed the ...

A 38-year-old Nevada man has been placed on probation and ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution for writing fake insurance policies for friends and family without their ...

A California plastic surgeon accused of molesting dozens of patients will pay $1.8 million in restitution to the alleged victims as part of a settlement of the civil ...

At Noon local time the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), estimated that Tropical Storm Oli's maximum sustained winds had reached approximately 130 mph (210 km/h), which ...

A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of 'A' (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating (ICR) of "a" to Hong Kong–based Starr International Insurance (Asia) ...

A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of 'B+' (Good) and an issuer credit rating of "bbb-" to Vietnamese insurer Petrovietnam Insurance JSC (PVI), with a ...

Reassured by jury's unbiased decision Chicago, Illinois and Salt Lake City, Utah (January 27, 2010). Prime Insurance Syndicate, Inc. was successfully defended in a Hurricane ...

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NEW YORK – Andrew J. Lorin, a noted figure in regulating and investigating New York's insurance industry since 2004, is joining Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as a ...