Illegal immigrants don’t hold the most dangerous jobs in America. That kind of work pays a decent wage for the risk to life and limb, and undocumented workers are barred from those jobs. Yet there is plenty of hazard, risk …
An estimated 25,900 residential building electrical fires were reported to fire departments within the United States each year between 2009 and 2011, according to the National Fire Data Center’s latest Topical Fire Report Series. These fires caused an estimated 280 …
On Feb. 12, 2014, the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., experienced the unthinkable. A sinkhole measuring 40 feet across and 60 feet deep developed inside the museum swallowing eight Corvettes. The before photo shows two cars on display …
A joint study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, the University at Buffalo, and the University of Toronto has found that a computer vision system can distinguish between real or faked expressions of pain more accurately than …
Overall satisfaction among homeowners who filed a property claim improved for the second consecutive year, according to the J.D. Power 2014 Property Claims Satisfaction Study. The study, now in its seventh year, measures satisfaction with the property claims experience among …
Researchers at Duke Medicine reported that health care costs increase in parallel with body mass measurements. Pharmacy and medical costs could double for obese people compared with those at a healthy weight, according to the recent study published in the …
Just one of 11 minicars tested in an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety small overlap front crash test achieved an acceptable rating. The Chevrolet Spark earned an acceptable rating in the test, along with good ratings in the Institute’s four …
CRDN was called out to clean property contents after a fire in Michigan. The items included a child’s cherished backpack that was damaged by heavy smoke from a fire in the home. CRDN carefully cleaned and restored the backpack to …
According to a new study, the number and rate of injuries sustained by children in shopping carts continues to climb, despite a voluntary shopping cart safety standard implemented in the United States in 2004. The study, conducted by researchers in …
New York issued $370 million in bonds to assist businesses in failed group self-insured trusts fulfill their obligations to their injured workers, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in December. The bonding was made possible in Cuomo’s 2013 Business Relief Act, which …