Transit Bus Crash Leaves 1 Dead, Damages Berkeley Home
A collision between an AC Transit bus and a sedan Thursday morning in Berkeley left one person dead, authorities said. The incident was reported about 6:40 a.m. when the driver of a red car, traveling southbound on California Street, collided with an AC Transit bus going westbound on Ashby Avenue, said Sgt. Andrew Frankel of the Berkeley Police Department.
February 9, 2018
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Property
Subrogation
California
Floods Are Getting Worse, And 2,500 Chemical Sites Lie In The Water’s Path
Anchored in flood-prone areas in every American state are more than 2,500 sites that handle toxic chemicals, a New York Times analysis of federal floodplain and industrial data shows. About 1,400 are located in areas at highest risk of flooding.
February 8, 2018
Catastrophe
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Two Workers Killed In Crane Accident At Manufacturing Plant
Two men are dead, another man is in critical condition and two others suffered minor injuries after an outdoor crane accident at the Manitowoc Crane Manufacturing Plant Friday morning.
February 7, 2018
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Workers' Compensation
Pennsylvania
Opioid Manufacturers Face Hundreds Of Lawsuits For Allegedly Misleading Doctors
Opioid manufacturers are feeling the heat as hundreds of lawsuits bear down on them, accusing the drug makers of misrepresenting their products.
February 6, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Litigation
New Product Launch: Space Travel Insurance
With the inaugural launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket only hours away, and with Elon Musk’s vision to make humans an interplanetary species, AardvarkCompare CEO Jonathan Breeze wants to be the first Travel Insurance Marketplace to offer Space Travel Insurance to Space Travelers.
February 6, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Fire Guts 24-Unit Apartment Building During Super Bowl Game
A fire destroyed an apartment building on Taywood Road and displaced 24 family units Sunday night, according to Clayton fire officials.
February 6, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Property
Ohio
Major Pileups Close Icy Missouri Interstate
At least one person died and several were injured in multiple accidents that closed both directions of I-44 between Lebanon and Rolla Sunday.
February 5, 2018
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Missouri
Cars Take A Hit From Spooked Carriage Horse In New York City
Police say a New York City carriage horse took off running after being scared by a screaming pedestrian with an umbrella, leaving three passengers injured and damaging some cars.
February 5, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
New York
More Than 100 Injured In Fatal Amtrak And Freight Train Collision
A locked switch is being blamed for the collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a freight train that killed two people and injured more than 100 others in South Carolina early on Sunday.
February 5, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
South Carolina
Seven Injured In Multi-Vehicle Crash In Grand Island, New York
Three vehicles, including an NFTA bus, were involved in an accident in Grand Island. It happened around 9 a.m. on Grand Island Boulevard, near Fantasy Island. Investigators are still working to piece together exactly what happened.
February 2, 2018
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Subrogation
New York
Insurers Gingerly Test Bitcoin Business With Heist Policies
Major global insurers are starting to offer protection against cryptocurrency theft, willing to tackle daunting challenges it brings rather than miss out on this volatile and loosely regulated, but rapidly growing business.
February 1, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Train Carrying Republican Lawmakers Collides With Garbage Truck
A train carrying Republican lawmakers to their retreat in West Virginia collided with what appeared to be a garbage truck on Wednesday.
January 31, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Virginia
Was Tire Or Maintenance At Fault In Deadly 2016 Football Bus Crash? Lawsuits Blame All.
New lawsuits from the 2016 fatal bus crash of a football team from Rock Hill filed by survivors of the crash and the widow of the bus driver allege tire failure through improper maintenance of the bus.
January 31, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Litigation
South Carolina
Helicopter Crash Into Newport Beach Home Kills Three
Three people were killed and two injured Tuesday afternoon when a helicopter that had taken off from nearby John Wayne Airport crashed up against a house in a neighborhood on the northeast end of Upper Newport Bay.
January 31, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
California
CargoNet 2017 Cargo Theft Trend Analysis
The CargoNet Command Center logged 1,391 supply chain intelligence events into the CargoNet database in 2017. A total of 741 records involved a cargo theft event in the United States or Canada—one of the safest years ever recorded by CargoNet.
January 30, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
