Freight Car Derails Into DeRailed Bar: Small Town Excitement
Can a name be destiny? In the case of DeRailed, a bar at 1130 N. Grand Ave., it appears so. A Canadian Pacific railroad car tipped over on the adjacent tracks early Tuesday and crushed a corner of the metal storage shed at the back of the bar.
August 11, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Iowa
Maryland Apartment Explosion A Mass Casualty Incident
Thirty residents were taken to the hospital and up to seven more were unaccounted for early Thursday after an explosion ripped through an apartment building in Silver Spring, Maryland, officials said.
August 11, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Life & Health
Maryland
Californias PG&E Guilty Of Pipeline Violations, But Fines Greatly Reduced
A federal jury found Californias largest utility guilty on Tuesday of misleading investigators about how it was identifying high-risk pipelines after a deadly pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area.
August 10, 2016
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Liability
Litigation
California
Train Derails At Paper Mill In Isle Of Wight, Virginia
Crews in Franklin worked to clean up after several cars on a CSX train derailed at International Paper in Isle of Wight on Tuesday. No one was injured.
August 10, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Virginia
$5K Worth Of Property Stolen By Manhattan Airbnb Guest
A bad house guest ransacked his Airbnb lodgings during the month of July, making off with more than $5,000 in property, police said.
August 9, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
New York
Medevacs Required For RV, Tour Bus Crash In Alaskan Wilderness
Thirteen people required hospitalization after a motor home slammed into the back of a bus that was turning into a wilderness lodge near Alaskas Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.
August 9, 2016
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Alaska
4 Guests Die In Oregon Motel Fire
Fire swept through the Newport City Center Motel early Friday morning, killing 4 people, injuring at least 3 others and displacing 50 people.
August 8, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Life & Health
Oregon
Hazmat Crews Respond To Crash Involving Deadly Anhydrous Ammonia
A semitrailer carrying hazardous material crashed on Interstate 90 in central Washington state, killing the driver, sending fumes into the air and causing some residences to be temporarily evacuated.
August 4, 2016
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Liability
Workers' Compensation
Washington
Search Underway For Helicopter Missing In Louisiana Swamp
Right now, rescue crews are on the scene of a civilian helicopter crash in Iberia Parish. According to Sheriff Louis Ackal, the crash happened in the Atchafalaya Basin in the Iberia Parish panhandle. Ackal says at least one person is in the water.
August 4, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Workers' Compensation
Louisiana
Intense Fire Incinerates Phoenix Hotel Under Construction
Crews battled a massive structure fire near the Loop 101 and Tatum Boulevard in Phoenix early Tuesday morning. The second-alarm fire started around 3:30 a.m. at a hotel under construction behind a Holiday Inn Express.
August 3, 2016
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Arizona
California Tour Bus Crash Kills Five Passengers
A bush crash in Merced County has claimed the lives of at least five passengers. The crash happened around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday on Highway 99 one mile south of the Hammat Avenue exit near the city of Livingston, according to a spokesperson with Merced-area California Highway Patrol.
August 2, 2016
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Liability
California
Nut Cargo An Appetizing Target For Thieves
Almonds, pistachios and other high-value nuts are an appealing commodity for not only health nuts, but also more recently to highly sophisticated criminal organizations in the San Joaquin valley.
August 2, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Fraud
California
Medical Plane Goes Down In Rural California Mountains, No Survivors
A medical transport plane crashed in northern California killing all four people onboard Friday. Around 12:30 a.m. local time Friday, the Piper Cheyenne aircraft containing three crew members and one patient departed from airport in Crescent City, California -- about 20 miles south of Oregon.
August 1, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Workers' Compensation
California
Texas Hot Air Balloon Crash Kills 16 People
U.S. safety investigators in central Texas began gathering evidence on Sunday into what caused the crash of a hot air balloon that killed 16 people after it hit a power line and plummeted to the ground in flames.
August 1, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Texas
Dump Truck Driver Causes Chain Of Collisions On Ohio Interstate
One person was killed, as many as three others were injured, and a dump truck driver is in custody following a five vehicle rear-end, chain-reaction accident on I-75 North in Moraine on Wednesday afternoon.
July 29, 2016
Auto
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Liability
Ohio



