An arbitrator has awarded $95.6 million to a Ukrainian immigrant who was seriously injured in a 2013 Philadelphia building collapse. Mariya Plekan’s attorney, Andrew Stern, announced the division of the $227 million settlement on Thursday. Lawyers for 19 people killed …
Dozens of global clothing companies are not complying with a plan to ensure better safety in Bangladesh garment factories following the deadly collapse of a building four years ago, a rights group said Monday. Only 29 out of 72 recently …
A jury has found the Salvation Army, an adjacent building owner and other defendants liable for a Philadelphia, Pa., building collapse that killed six people inside the charity’s thrift store. Thirteen others were buried in rubble but survived when a …
A cut-rate demolition contractor was found guilty of manslaughter Monday, more than two years after a towering wall fell on a busy Philadelphia, Pa., thrift store, killing six people. A jury convicted Griffin Campbell of six counts of involuntary manslaughter, …
A small-time contractor “valued money over human life” when he cut corners on a demolition project, causing a building collapse that killed six people inside a thrift store, prosecutors said Wednesday as his murder trial opened. Griffin Campbell’s lawyer painted …
Pyongyang isn’t just any North Korean city. So when a 23-story apartment building under construction collapsed in the center of the showcase capital in May, officials faced a bona fide emergency. Their response was in some ways predictable: a grudgingly …
Frantic relatives kept up a vigil Saturday at the site of a collapsed apartment building that killed at least 42 people in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, as the search for around a dozen people missing in the rubble grew …
A veteran Philadelphia building inspector who apparently committed suicide had inspected the site of a deadly building collapse twice in February and an adjacent, related project in mid-May. The June 5 collapse killed six people when a four-story building tumbled …
The Philadelphia City Council says it plans to form an investigative committee to review city regulations and procedures in the wake of a deadly building collapse. The Council plans to formally announce the creation of the special committee Monday. In …
Rescuers using floodlights worked into the night Wednesday to attempt to free dozens of people believed trapped under an eight-story building housing garment factories that collapsed near Bangladesh’s capital, killing at least 87 people. In some places, they were able …