The 8:00 a.m. AST bulletin from the National Hurricane Center in Miami placed the season’s latest tropical storm, Shary, around 220 miles (355 kms) south–southwest of Bermuda. The storm, which coalesced from a tropical depression last night, packs maximum sustained …
Toyota secretly bought back from U.S. consumers vehicles it found with speed-control defects as part of a strategy to hide unintended-acceleration problems from safety regulators and the public, a revised lawsuit claims. The repurchase transactions included strict confidentiality agreements barring …
Years ago a lawyer friend told me of an experience. While teaching a group of Chinese lawyers, he proposed a question to them of who is responsible if a vehicle hits a pedestrian in a cross walk? The class said …
The Colorado Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) program has been awarded $100,000 grant to fight Medicare fraud, the state Division of Insurance announced. The grant is part of the federal mandate to educate seniors and other Medicare beneficiaries about how to …
The Arizona Department of Insurance has announced that Gevorg Melkonyan and Elina Arutyunova have been criminally charged for their role in allegedly stealing the medical identity of several Arizona patients and then falsely billing insurance companies for medical services never …
One of every four Texans lives along the coast; Texas has 16 major ports and more than 3,300 miles of bays and estuaries. Those are just a few facts available in a new a Web-based atlas of the 18-county Texas …
After four years of decreases, medical costs per workers’ compensation claim in Texas stabilized in 2007, reflecting the impact of reforms enacted in 2001 and much of those passed in 2005, according to a study by the Workers Compensation Research …
Higher medical costs per claim in Wisconsin are offset by much lower utilization of medical services in the state’s workers compensation system. As a result, medical payments per workers’ comp claim in Wisconsin were typical among 15 states for 2005/2008 …
The husband of a Baton Rouge construction company worker shot to death at the business Dec. 23 claims the firm ignored a threat that the alleged shooter made when he was fired. James Coutee, whose wife Dianna Tullier was a …
A woman who fled Ohio two and a-half years ago after she was convicted in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud case has been arrested in Mexico, the FBI announced. Rebecca S. Parrett, 62, was arrested by Mexican authorities and will …