BP Spill Medical Benefits Accord Unfair, Some Victims Claim July 12, 2013 By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Laurel Brubaker Calkins The medical benefits portion of BP Plc’s settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is “substantively unfair” and...
New Jersey Report Links Corrupt Doctors to Drug Abuse July 12, 2013 By REMA RAHMAN The buzz came mostly by word-of-mouth but also from flyers circulated among New Jersey’s homeless Medicaid recipients and drug addicts....
Exxon: Report Blames Arkansas Pipeline Bust on Defects July 12, 2013 By CHUCK BARTELS An independent report blames manufacturing defects for the failure of an ExxonMobil pipeline that sent 150,000 gallons of crude oil...
Kansas Insurance Chief Fills Consumer Division Spots July 12, 2013 Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has promoted three employees of her office’s Consumer Assistance Division to new supervisory jobs. Praeger...
Auto Thefts Down Across Maricopa County July 12, 2013 The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office reports that car thefts in the Arizona county dropped more than 8.5 percent in 2012....
Rhode Island Plans Crackdown on Uninsured Drivers July 12, 2013 Rhode Island officials are planning a crackdown on drivers whose vehicles aren’t insured. Lawmakers have sent a bill to Gov....
Arizona Governor Seeks Yarnell Fire Disaster Declaration July 12, 2013 Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer wants President Barack Obama to declare the area around the Yarnell Hill fire a disaster area....
Flood Damage in New Hampshire County Estimated at $3.5M July 12, 2013 Officials in New Hampshire’s Grafton County estimate damages to be at least $3.5 million from flash flooding this summer. Federal...
Worker Dies After Fall From Oklahoma Hotel Roof July 12, 2013 Police say a construction worker was killed after he fell from the roof of a Nowata, Okla., hotel. Nowata Police...
GEICO Names Rayburn Vice President of Southeast Region July 12, 2013 Rhett Rayburn has been named vice president of Southeast operations in GEICO’s Macon, Ga., office. Prior to his new role,...