United Technologies Corp’s (UTX.N) Carrier unit expanded a recall of some air conditioners and heat pumps as their power cord plugs can overheat, posing a fire risk, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Thursday.
BMW AG is recalling more than 19,000 i3 REx plug-in hybrids in the U.S. because they could develop a fuel vapor leak that would increase the risk of a fire.
Over the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of opioids in workers’ compensation. Opioids are being prescribed for many conditions for which they were not originally intended.
To be or not to be remains the question with workers’ compensation and gross negligence. Currently, Florida law bars contractors and subcontractors from being sued for gross negligence when another subcontractor employs and insures its own crew.
At a recent IASA meeting, I asked a colleague from a well-known P&C insurance company how his organization’s digital transformation was coming along. “What time is it?” he answered.
The small plane that crashed Wednesday in a marsh near Tweed-New Haven Airport during a training flight, killing one man and seriously injuring another, was owned by the same company that had a plane crash in East Hartford last year, federal records show.
Marion Thomas has a hard time describing how he became the driver who on two occasions struck and killed a person in the roadway. The closest he gets is comparing it to lightning striking him twice.
A Sunday afternoon fire left a St. Charles home uninhabitable, fire officials said. When firefighters arrived at the home, they found a fire had burned from the exterior of the building into the house and the attic, they said.
The fire that killed a 5-year-old boy in Lorton, Virginia, on Tuesday evening was caused by “inappropriate use of a lighter” by the child, the fire department said Wednesday.
Two people are dead after a semi truck carrying ammunition crashed on Interstate 40 near Ozark on Wednesday (Feb. 22), according to Franklin County Sheriff Anthony Boen.
San Jose was hit by what officials described as the worst flooding in 100 years as the Coyote Creek, which runs through the heart of the city, overflowed, inundating neighborhoods and forcing thousands to flee.
Phones have gotten smart. Drivers? Not so much. Our yearning to stay connected with the world at all times has made Georgia’s roads an increasingly dangerous place to be.
The possible listeria contamination affecting a number of cheese brands continues to grow, as Sargento and MDS Foods announced over the weekend the recall of more than a dozen additional products that may have come into contact with the listeria-tainted cheeses from supplier Deutsch Kase Haus.
More than $59 million in fraudulent workers’ compensation claims were prevented thanks, at least in part, to a bill by Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced, signed into law last year, according to a statement from his office.
Your greatest SodaStream fears have been realized: tens of thousands of SodaStream’s plastic bottles may not be able to withstand quite as much pressure as the company thought, causing the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue a recall because they pose an injury risk to carbonation-happy consumers.
