The city of Cleveland voted Wednesday to purchase $50 million in liability insurance in preparation for the Republican National Convention — a five-fold increase over what was originally planned — as threats of protest and even attack during the official nomination of Donald Trump grow stronger.
The Kern High School District agreed Wednesday to pay $10.5 million to a former student injured in a violent dog pile that broke out during a 2010 Bakersfield High School pep rally, cutting short an ongoing civil trial that threatened to cost the district’s insurance company even more money.
It didn’t take much for thieves to steal the brand new full size farm tractor from a Southwest Michigan farm implement dealership last year. Police said the suspects drove up to the business, cut a wire that secured the vehicle to another tractor then loaded the tractor and drove away with it.
The General Insurance Association of Japan (GIAJ) reports that claims paid in the wake of the Kumamoto earthquake in mid-April totalled 317 billion yen, or about US$3.1 billion, as of June 20.
A car slammed into a father and a daughter riding their bicycles on Long Island, killing one of them, then crashed into the front porch of a home, causing the porch to collapse, police say.
Snake oil salesmen in the 1800s made a living selling potions with extravagant healing claims that were patently false. Medical con artists, like all con artists, trade in ignorance.
Lightning is being blamed as the suspected cause of a fire that consumed the lakefront home of a prominent Vermont CEO on Tuesday evening in South Hero.
As a small business owner, you worry about making payroll, increasing sales, satisfying customers, you don’t worry about a car crashing through the front door. But that’s exactly what happened at Salon Fusion today.
A cleanup effort and damage assessment is underway in Poplar and Brockton after a severe Friday night storm, caused by a possible bow-echo with 85 mph winds, hit the area. A bow-echo is a bow-shaped radar signature associated with fast-moving storm systems accompanied by damaging winds.
This week West Virginians likely will escape any more of the flooding that has wreaked havoc across several counties, taking 23 lives -- a figure authorities warned may rise. But for the families on Mill House Road in White Sulphur Springs -- many of them kin -- any new flooding could hardly make things worse.
Everything is going automatic — and those looking to perpetrate data breaches with malware are no different — emphasizing the need for individuals and organizations to be better prepared to keep the cyber door closed to potential threats.
Grainy video projected onto a screen depicted a man in waders casting with a fly rod while traversing a bank of river rock — his face pixelated to protect his identity. He was receiving workers’ comp benefits at the time for an injured shoulder.
Yolanda Mendoza lives every day like it’s her last. The mother of three is very happy and healthy now - a stark change from three years ago, when she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
Two mothers and their four children were killed early on Tuesday after their minivan was struck from behind by a tractor-trailer and burst into flames as it tumbled down an embankment north of Los Angeles, the California Highway Patrol said.
On average, more people die in motor vehicle crashes on Independence Day than any other day of the year, an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety analysis of the five most recent years of available fatal crash data indicates. What’s driving the trend?
