The late-January fire at the Meadville Public Library was confined to a single room in the building’s basement and was extinguished within about 10 minutes of firefighters being dispatched, according to Meadville Central Fire Chief Evan Hasko.
Campbell County officials are still assessing the extent of the damage done Friday afternoon when a tornado ripped through the Oriva Hills and Wrangler Estates subdivisions northwest of Gillette.
A hail storm cracked the windshield of an American Airlines jetliner headed to Phoenix and forced it to divert to El Paso, Texas, Sunday night, officials said.
The Institutes, the leading education and research provider for the risk management and property-casualty insurance industry, today announced it has acquired Claims and Litigation Management (CLM), a professional association in the claims resolution and litigation management industries with 45,000 members, and Claims Pages, a comprehensive online news and reference source for more than 200,000 insurance claims professionals. The deal closed on June 1, 2018.
Twelve states will each see insured damages topping $100 million as the weather system that hit the U.S. from May 11-16 caused a total of $2.5 billion in commercial and residential claims, according to a report Tuesday from Boston-based catastrophe modeler Karen Clark & Co.
Imagine finding out that one of the sample packs of birth control pills that your doctor gave you could actually result in pregnancy.<br />Pharmaceutical company Allergan announced a nationwide voluntary recall of Taytulla soft gel oral contraceptive capsules—1mg/20mcg sample packs—on May 29 after learning that four "non-hormonal" placebo capsules (aka, sugar pills) had inadvertently been placed out of order.
Fatigue and sleepiness are inherent safety risks for ridesharing drivers and their passengers, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine declares in a recent position statement.
Society has gone from risk-averse to risk-intolerant. It is hard to participate in any activity without being asked to read and sign some sort of release, exculpatory agreement, or liability waiver in advance.
Already at the mercy of mounting legal bills, embattled former film producer Harvey Weinstein also has to contend with his insurers – which have not only denied him coverage for legal costs, but have also launched lawsuits of their own against him.
Federally regulated Canadian property and casualty insurers have paid out $535 million more in auto claims during the first quarter of 2018 than they did during the same period last year, according to financial results posted by Canada’s solvency regulator.
Tyler Chen, 46, and his wife, Kim, 45, were arraigned in court yesterday in the Santa Clara County Superior Court following their arrest on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and arson for their role in allegedly setting fires in a fraud scheme scamming five insurance companies out of $4 million.
Molten rock from several lava-spewing fissures opened by Kilauea Volcano crept toward clusters of homes and vacation rentals on the eastern tip of Hawaii’s Big Island on Wednesday, as authorities ushered residents from the area as a precaution.
A massive task was at hand Wednesday night as crews worked to dismantle a crane that somehow toppled over and fell on two homes in Lauderhill causing minor injuries to two people.
