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Fire departments in the United States responded to an estimated 1.6 million fires during 2006. These fires caused 3,245 civilian... Read More

Technology and financial services firms won a key patent reform victory Friday when the House approved legislation the industries have... Read More

Hurricane expert William Gray downgraded his 2007 Atlantic storms forecast slightly, but he still predicted above-average activity for the rest... Read More

Officer David Callister was about to drive past the 1991 Nissan sedan when an alert sounded inside his cruiser and... Read More

A.M. Best said that its ratings on Accident Fund Group of Lansing Mich. and its subsidiaries “remain unchanged following the... Read More

Policy language that a major insurance company invoked to deny Gulf Coast homeowners’ claims after Hurricane Katrina is at the... Read More

New Jersey’s Supreme Court has rejected a class-action lawsuit against Merck & Co. over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx. The ruling... Read More

A federal judge in Chattanooga, Tenn. has granted class-action status to a lawsuit that contends Unum Group, the nation’s largest... Read More

Cutting the grueling work hours of doctors-in-training had little effect on reducing patient deaths, according to two large studies. Death... Read More

Fitch Ratings has downgraded the long-term debt ratings of the Radian Group Inc. to ‘A-‘ from ‘A’ and the insurer... Read More