Monthly Archives: <span>April 2015</span>

Federal Agency Warns Against Common Internet Fraud Scams

Cyber criminals are coming up with more and more sophisticated ways to steal your identity, your personal information and your money. To help protect yourself against these threats, here is a list of the top internet frauds from the Federal …

Hair Hanging Acrobat Accident Leads to Safety Improvements

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, will implement ongoing safety enhancements in aerial acts to protect employees against injuries like those sustained by its aerialists during a May 4, 2014, performance in Providence, Rhode Island. Feld Entertainment Inc., headquartered …

Former Allstate Adjuster Arrested for Insurance Fraud in Georgia

Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens announced the arrest of an insurance claims adjuster and her accomplice brother for allegedly stealing more than $79,000 from her former employer. Arleatha Martin of Macon, and her brother Christopher Lorenzo Battle of Locust Grove, …

FEMA Launches Task Force to Examine Superstorm Sandy Issues

A task force will begin work next week with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s national flood insurance program to examine problems that arose after Superstorm Sandy and to develop recommendations to correct them. U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, …

Patriot National Acquires Corporate Claims Management

Florida-based Patriot National announced its acquisition of Missouri-based Corporate Claims Management, Inc. (CCMI), a multi-line provider of claims administration, with 2014 revenues of $6.5 million. Founded in 1992, Corporate Claims Management provides the risk management community with claims administration services …

Texas Judge Halts Ebola Nurse Worker’s Comp Claim

Last Monday, a Texas district judge put on hold a hospital operator’s efforts to seek a worker’s compensation claim for a nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for the first U.S. patient to succumb to the deadly disease. State District …

Nepal Earthquake Causes Deadly Mount Everest Avalanche

Mountaineers, guides and porters streamed from Mount Everest base camp on Sunday in the wake of a deadly earthquake-triggered avalanche that obliterated parts of the rocky village of nylon tents. Some warned that dozens of people may still be missing. …

Vehicles With Keys Left Inside Easy Target for Thieves: NICB

In a first-of-its-kind analysis of vehicle thefts released today, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) found a disturbing trend — an increasing number of thefts of vehicles with the keys left inside. For the years 2012 through 2014, at total …

Storm Chasers Not Just in it for the Money

The moment, almost 20 years later, remains crystal clear in the mind of Tommy Self. He was a volunteer firefighter in the tiny central Alabama town of Townley, about 10 miles west of Jasper. The department responded when an EF-5 …

Many South Carolina Police Vehicles Still Lack Dashcams

If proposed legislation leads to all officers in South Carolina wearing body cameras, the devices could provide some officers their only way to capture video of an arrest. Dashcams are not as widespread in South Carolina as many assume. Seventeen …