Insurance News from December 11, 2007
News
Study: Vehicle Crash Tests Predict Car But Not Truck Safety
Frontal crash tests in laboratories are strong predictors of passenger cars' safety on...
International News
Gore Calls on U.S., China to Act on CO2 in Nobel Prize Speech
Nobel Laureate Al Gore accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Monday night Dec. 10...
East News
Mass. Supreme Court Expands Doctors’ Liability to Nonpatients
A Massachusetts physician is responsible to all third parties who might possibly be...
West News
Study: California Workers’ Comp Insurer Needs Significant Reforms
California's State Compensation Insurance Fund "has weak corporate governance,...
Southeast News
S.C.: E-mail Shows PR Strategy Involving Charleston Fire Investigation
An e-mail sent by a South Carolina workplace safety official details the agency's...
Texas / South Central News
11 Killed in Okla. Ice Storm; Hundreds of Thousands Without Power
A winter storm coated much of Oklahoma in ice on Monday, Dec. 10, knocking out power to...
Midwest News
Ice Storms in Plains, Midwest Ground Airliners, Blamed for 6 Deaths
An ice storm slickened roads and sidewalks, grounded hundreds of flights, and cut power...