Dick Seitz (Class of ’61) and his Cathedral High School buddies were at Mama’s Pizza on Saddle Creek Road on Thursday evening last week, telling stories of the old days, when they heard what sounded like firecrackers outside. The noise actually came from hailstones, some as big as 4 inches in diameter.
A Washington state insurance agent has been charged with felony theft for a workers’ compensation scam. James C. Kooy, 53, has been accused of claiming he was too disabled to work while running his own insurance agency. Authorities say he fraudulently received more than $233,000 in benefits.
Police say a man suspected of drunken driving smashed his car through the front of a “Fixer Upper” home in North Waco early Saturday morning, capping more than a year of frustration for its owners, who feel their complaints about neighborhood crime have gone unheard.
A Louisiana man has been arrested for allegedly opening fire on an insurance adjuster who was taking photos of his property. Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputies arrested Dewayne Snelling, 56, according to a report by the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Circuit Judge Cymonie Rowe on Wednesday granted a request by Williams’ attorney to temporarily prevent a data download from the car occupied by victim Jerome Barson, 78. The court has scheduled a hearing on the matter at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Palm Beach County Courthouse.
It was near midnight on Jan. 19, 2013 when Steven Hofer was driving his truck on the frozen plains of northwestern North Dakota. A car driven by a drunk driver crossed the center line, hitting Hofer head on. He suffered severe injuries in the collision. The motorist who hit him didn’t have insurance.
The London fire that killed scores of people last month could lead to gross property and liability insurance claims of 50 million pounds ($64.80 million), the company that had insured the property said.
Insurance company Hawaii Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company announced it will stop providing workers’ compensation insurance to seven of the eight businesses waiting for licenses to begin selling their product in dispensaries.
Tesla has always made a big deal about how safe its electric cars are, and frequently boast about how they have the highest ratings at the NHTSA. But the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a vehicle testing outfit run by the insurance industry, threw some shade on the company in its latest report.
A state employee who said he got hurt at work and claimed disability from the state’s workers’ compensation insurer, but was actually injured riding a motorcycle at a Bozeman racetrack, has admitted to a felony and will pay a $3,000 fine. Boone Block, 34, of Clyde Park, pleaded guilty June 14 to false claim to a public agency.
A Los Altos acupuncturist has been charged with fraudulently billing insurance companies for treatments that he never gave, Santa Clara County prosecutors said Monday. According to the district attorney’s office, in December 2014 the California Department of Insurance received a tip that 53-year-old Aifeng Su had billed insurance companies for treatment visits that never happened.
Action 9 exposed an insurance nightmare facing hundreds of customers who paid one of Florida’s biggest insurers to protect their homes. The kitchen’s gutted walls are cut open, and the floors have been stripped. That’s the condition of Adrienne Herrell’s home one year after a water leak triggered a destructive flood. “I’m 75 years old and I’ve been homeless for a year,” said Herrell.
According to a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), Michigan boasted the country’s largest decrease in the amount of opioids prescribed for workers’ compensation claims between 2009 and 2015. In total, the amount fell by 37 percent, and the WCRI claims it is due to amendments of Workers’ Compensation Health Care Services rules and fee schedule.
While moving out of his Orangevale home, a man claims three movers took around $12,000 in belongings and guns. Many of Mike Brown’s firearms as well as his wife’s jewelry were taken from inside a bedroom closet. "Knew we had valuables in there so the doors were shut, things were pushed back up in corners of the closet, covered up," Brown said.
