A small plane crashed on the roof of a building in Southern California Sunday afternoon, sending one person to the hospital.<br />The single-engine Piper PA-28 went down under unknown circumstances and ended up on top of a state parole building in Pomona, east of Los Angeles.
The amputation of a 21-year-old temporary worker’s six fingers was preventable if his South Elgin employer had installed proper safety guards to keep the operator’s hands out of the metal press’ danger zone, federal inspectors found.
For many insurers, agility and profitable growth is hampered by inflexible systems and inefficient processes that create execution gaps in underwriting operations. Even today, a large portion of the underwriting process is still performed using time-consuming and often redundant manual processes.
Some of them have waited weeks to finally get their roofs repaired after massive hail damage. Now thieves have put them right back to square one, and it’s happening more and more in neighborhoods across north Texas.
A Salt Lake City area light rail train derailed and three people were injured. A spokesman for South Salt Lake police said the train went off the tracks Sunday afternoon.
A tornado injured at least five people and damaged buildings in eastern Colorado on Saturday, according to authorities, and more storms were anticipated in the Plains.
Around 50,000 pounds of potatoes spilled in a tractor-trailer crash Friday morning, closing part of Interstate 77 near uptown Charlotte. Troopers say the driver of a tractor-trailer fell asleep behind the wheel on I-77 southbound near Exit 9B, causing him to hit a concrete barrier and spill the potatoes across the highway.
A Middle Tennessee family said their newborn daughter suffered serious burns after a piece of equipment at the hospital malfunctioned. Apparently a screw fell out of a heat lamp and onto the baby, leaving serious burns on her neck and chest.
Liberty Mutual has introduced smart video technology to help enhance communications with injured workers and improve outcomes in its workers’ compensation line.
An Amish teen was killed after the buggy in which he was riding was struck on a federal highway near this community of about 200 residents. Jonas Beiler, 17, of Econony was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident on U.S. 35, about 2 miles east of town, said Sgt. John Bowling of Indiana State Police.
While drawing workers’ compensation and claiming he was reliant on a wheelchair, the Broward Sheriff’s deputy appeared to be able-bodied when an investigation company captured him on surveillance video driving, running errands and shopping at a mall, records show.
The driver of an SUV appeared to deliberately ram the entrance of a diner in McLean, Virginia, during the lunchtime rush Wednesday, hitting a man and causing the vehicle to burst into flames, witnesses said.
The Smith County Commissioner’s Court voted to extend the disaster declaration Judge Joel Baker issued on Friday night. The Smith County fire marshal said 169 homes in Lindale were affected by the two EF-2 tornadoes, including 10 that were destroyed.
The damage costs from the fire ripping through Fort McMurray, Alta., could reach $9 billion for insurers if it gets to the point that the entire town has to be rebuilt, an analyst at Bank of Montreal said Thursday.
A jury has awarded $12 million to a man whose routine trip to the doctor ended with paralysis. They also awarded his wife $3 million to care for him. Cris Nelson was a truck driver for Frito Lay before the accident at his doctor’s office.
