Updated: March 18, 2010, 11:53 am EDT
National News

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 ...
East News

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 ...
Midwest News

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 ...
Southeast News

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 ...
Texas / South Central News

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 ...
West News

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 ...
International News

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 ...
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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, ...