Trains and planes were delayed while cars and pedestrians slogged through knee-deep water in battered Brooklyn as flash flooding swept through parts of the borough following days of intense heat and power outages.
There’s been lots of talk about medical marijuana as a safe alternative to opioids for the treatment of chronic pain, a common diagnosis among workers’ compensation patients.
Volvo Cars is recalling about half a million cars worldwide because of a faulty engine component that may in extreme cases cause a vehicle to catch a fire.
Two cars were decimated after a fire just blocks away from the Ann Arbor Art Fair on Friday. Officials were called about 8 p.m. Friday, July 19 to the fire on William Street near Second Street in Ann Arbor, said Ann Arbor police Sgt. Mark Pulford.
Summer is the time to load up on food that’s best consumed outdoors in locations that are sometimes off-limits the rest of the year — think hotdogs at a ballpark or ice-cream on a scoop shop’s patio. However, while some restaurants might see a spike in customers during these months, they also face increased workers’ comp-related risks.
A week after Hurricane Barry washed ashore, people everywhere have become expert weather forecasters. I realized this last Sunday after an irate caller told WWL Radio listeners the fake news media, meteorologists and public officials had conspired to deliver a doomsday forecast just to scare coastal residents.
Recent hurricane seasons have been vicious, last year’s killed more than a hundred people and inflicted more than $50 billion dollars in damages. The country is still deep in recovery and this year’s storm season is already underway.
Agents in the Fraud Investigations Division of the Georgia Insurance Commissioner’s Office have made 49 arrests in the first half of 2019 and are set to pass the total number of arrests from last year (60) in just the third calendar quarter.
Developments like Amazon’s recent announcement that it expects “within months” to begin delivering packages via drone, coupled with the anticipated impact of 5G wireless technology on drone use, have captured headlines. How drones ultimately will be used is uncertain, but it’s clear that increased use of unmanned aircraft will likely alter the risk landscape.
Death and taxes may be life’s only two actual inevitabilities if you go by the old adage, but for risk managers and insurance claim professionals, hurricane season represents another sure thing. It isn’t “if,” it’s “when and how many?”
The death of a 3-year-old boy yesterday in Rochester, NY was a tragic accident; one that has both potential workers’ compensation and tort liabilities for the owner of the business where he died. Authorities say he fell into an unsecured grease trap behind a Tim Horton’s Restaurant.
Storms of unprecedented power have lashed the U.S. and the Caribbean in recent years, leaving a trail of devastation estimated in the tens of billions of dollars. The U.S. alone has experienced 212 natural disasters since 1980 with the overall costs totaling $1.2 trillion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA).
Even though the June 1 hailstorm has long passed, residents are still feeling the effects as insurance claims soar. "It was the worst hailstorm I can remember in 30 years," Jeff Blue said, owner of Reliance Insurance Agency in Goshen.
