Examinations under oath help insurers combat fraud and should be allowed without requiring time-consuming court orders in Kentucky, the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud and National Insurance Crime Bureau say in a joint amicus brief filed today with the state’s highest court.
Tavares Mayor Robert Wolfe was arrested Wednesday night on an insurance-fraud charge, an official said. Wolfe is accused of filing false claims with his insurance company for damage to his home and receiving $9,300 as a result.
Summer is driving season—and, it appears, fuming, cursing, and ramming season as well. In a survey released today by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 78 percent of the approximately 205 million drivers in the U.S. reported expressing significant anger, aggression, or plain old road rage in the past year.
General Motors’ 2009 bankruptcy does not shield it from lawsuits over a deadly ignition-switch defect that led to criminal charges against the automaker and prompted the recall of 2.6 million vehicles in 2014, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
Ten homes and two fire trucks are reported to have burned in a quick-moving fire near Timberon, a small community southeast of Alamogordo. Otero County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Steve Odom says no injuries have been reported so far.
The nearly daily deluge has continued from June into July, and it’s bringing hail with it. Thursday, July 7, an onslaught of rain and hail poured down in town and southeast of Holyoke.
Early evening storms caused extensive damage throughout Killdeer on Sunday. The damage was so bad that Dunn County Emergency Manager Denise Brew said “the town looked like a war zone.”
An overturned fuel truck shut down a portion of Florida’s Turnpike on Tuesday morning in Miami-Dade County. Sky 10 was above the Turnpike extension southbound at Southwest 152nd Street about 9:30 a.m. as the commercial fuel carrier was engulfed in flames.
Several different law enforcement agencies responded to a call Tuesday morning, about a SUV submerged in a bayou off of Lillian Highway and Dog Track Road. When they arrived at the scene, they were able to do some work around the car and figure out the licence plate numbers.
Two workers with a highway maintenance crew were struck and killed by a dump truck while working on Route 11 in Augusta County on Tuesday. The two workers, Felimon V. Aizpuro II, 38, of Staunton, Va., and Debbie S. Huffman, 50, of Port Republic, Va., both died at the scene, according to the Virginia State Police.
The Roanoke City Fire Department says a lightning strike caused a house fire Tuesday afternoon. One Roanoke firefighter also had to be hospitalized after falling down an elevator shaft while responding to the fire.
A person was injured in a crash involving an overturned car and two other vehicles that ended up on top of each other on Ebbitts Street near Mill Road in New Dorp.
In the wake of a storm that ripped the roof off an apartment building in Boone, toppled trees, blocked roads, and cut power to more than 18,000 homes and businesses, officials say major progress in recovering has been made.
A mother and her 2-year-old son were trapped in their vehicle for about an hour Tuesday evening, July 12, after lightning struck a tree, causing it to crash onto their vehicle.
Small SUVs for 2016 and 2017 did poorly during new headlight tests done by the insurance industry. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said Tuesday that none of the 21 SUVs tested earned its highest ranking.
