Esurance, the direct-to-consumer insurance company, is now offering motorcycle insurance in Wisconsin. This new product not only covers motorcycles, but also scooters, dirt bikes, golf carts, snowmobiles and Segways. A motorcycle insurance policy from Esurance typically includes: An option that …
Cal/OSHA cited Artesia-based Express Chipping, Inc. following the death of a 40-year-old worker who was chipping concrete inside a cement mixer when he was struck by a 1,200-pound slab of concrete. Cal/OSHA cited the company for failing to identify the …
In the chaotic days after Superstorm Sandy, an army of aid workers streamed onto the flood-ravaged Rockaway Peninsula looking for anyone who needed help. Health workers and National Guard troops went door to door. City inspectors checked thousands of dwellings …
This little village had a big problem. Each day, thousands of cars – sometimes as many as 18,000 – rolled along Elmwood Place’s streets, crossing the third-of-a-mile town to get to neighboring Cincinnati or major employers in bustling suburbs or …
In this year’s large city category of the “Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S.” study, Farmers Insurance Group has rated Bethesda, Md., Grand Rapids, Mich., and Pittsburgh, Pa., as the most secure large metropolitan areas (population of 500,000 …
According to a study of physicians’ attitudes about pain drugs published in The Journal of Pain, negative physician attitudes about opioid medications are closely associated with lower rates of prescribing and more favorable attitudes are linked with higher prescribing levels. …
Several days of heavy rains caused flooding that damaged hundreds of homes in southwestern Wisconsin, and officials in some communities were preparing for more flooding as rivers rose. Storms pounded the southern part of the state early Wednesday but had …
Williams Cos., the owner of a Louisiana chemical plant that remains shut after a fatal explosion, said insurance will cover most of the loss. An explosion June 13 at Williams Partners LP’s Geismar plant killed two people and caused an …
The Oklahoma Insurance Department says nearly 76,000 claims have been filed since a series of violent tornadoes hit Oklahoma last month, killing dozens and injuring hundreds. Insurance Commissioner John Doak said Wednesday insurance payments from the storms are nearing $688 …
State Insurance Superintendent John Franchini will remain New Mexico’s top insurance regulator when his office becomes an independent governmental agency next month. A nine-member committee named Franchini on Wednesday to serve as insurance superintendent for a term expiring Dec. 31, …