A fire on board forced a JetBlue flight to make an emergency landing Tuesday. Airport officials said the fire was caused by a lithium battery in an electronic device.
Although a major hurricane hasn’t unleashed its full fury on Florida in more than a decade, property insurance rates are climbing statewide because of another kind of storm — claims abuse.
Increased use of technology to treat injured workers remotely potentially could speed treatment, give injured workers access to more specialists and reduce workers compensation claims costs, but telemedicine also introduces new risks that must be addressed, a panel of experts said.
Another round of nasty weather is forecast for parts of the Northeast later Tuesday after severe storms slammed the Southeast into the early morning hours.
Raleigh firefighters battled a fire at an apartment complex in the 9000 block of Prince George Lane on Friday. The fire started on the porch of a rear, second-floor apartment, burned down through the porch floor to the first floor, then spread from there, officials said.
A ringleader of a group that allegedly staged wrecks and accompanying injuries in Harrison, Marion and Taylor counties to get insurance payouts has pleaded guilty.
Fort Wayne and Allen County officials had to divert traffic from numerous streets and evacuate residents from their homes tonight as more than an inch of rain inundated the area in four hours, causing flash floods.
A Palm Springs home caught fire Wednesday afternoon, leading authorities to shut down local roadways as crews battled the blaze. Three people in the house were displaced from the home, including an elderly cancer patient would was pulled out by a relative.
Forecasters say the Atlantic could see another above-normal hurricane season in 2017. Forecasters predicted 11-17 named storms, five to nine hurricanes and two to four hurricanes could be "major" with sustained winds of at least 111 mph.
In 2015, Tina Grimes left a microwave running unattended in her Virginia Beach hotel room, according to court documents. It started a fire, and the sprinkler system activated. The hotel’s insurance company now wants Grimes to pay $1.83 million.
