Yahoo Security Breach May Be Largest Ever
Yahoo (YHOO, Tech30) confirmed on Thursday data "associated with at least 500 million user accounts" have been stolen in what may be one of the largest cybersecurity breaches ever.
September 23, 2016
Liability
Technology
Parents Of USC Student Sue Over Fatal Crash With Campus Cop
Ambition brought Kelsey Dresser to the University of Southern California, where the aspiring therapist from Carlsbad enrolled in graduate school. But the 23-year-old students goal to become a mental health counselor was cut short last December, when she turned her red convertible into the universitys South Los Angeles campus.
September 22, 2016
Auto
Liability
Litigation
California
Yahoo Will Reveal Massive Loss Of User Data, Recode Says
Yahoo! Inc. is preparing to disclose a “massive” data breach of its main service, Recode reported, just as Verizon Communications Inc. prepares to take over the ailing internet companys core assets.
September 22, 2016
Liability
Technology
Wreck Artists Add Billions To Auto Injury Claims Payouts
Whenever Doris Maxey backs out of a parking spot, she honks her horn as a warning. “I am very cautious,” Maxey, 90, said. “I honk, and I look and look, because I dont want to run over my postman.”
September 21, 2016
Fraud
Liability
Pilot Survives Plane Crash Into Phoenix Home
Federal investigators are at the scene of a plane crash in a suburban Phoenix neighborhood. Gilbert Fire Department spokesman Gary Hildebrandt says firefighters were assisting National Transportation Safety Board personnel Sunday, the morning after a plane carrying several skydivers crashed into a Gilbert home.
September 20, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Property
Arizona
Churchs Chicken Worker Cooked By Grease When Floor Collapsed
A Texas woman is demanding $50 million for being "literally cooked" when a floor collapsed at a Churchs Chicken restaurant and covered her in boiling fryer grease.
September 19, 2016
Liability
Litigation
Workers' Compensation
Texas
Road Debris Smashes Through Windshield, Killing Driver
The California Department of Transportation says a large metal nut that struck and killed a man as he drove on a Northern California freeway may have come from one of its trucks.
September 19, 2016
Auto
Liability
California
Floridian Burned By Exploding Smartphone Files Suit
A Florida man has filed what is believed to be the first lawsuit to result from a battery defect affecting Samsung Note7 smartphones.
September 19, 2016
Liability
Litigation
Florida
Football Team Charter Bus Crash Kills Four
Four people, including an 8-year-old boy, died and 42 were taken to the hospital Saturday when a charter bus carrying a football team from Ramah Juco Academy of Rock Hill crashed.
September 19, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
North Carolina
Fiat-Chrysler Recalling 1.9M Vehicles Globally
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV said on Thursday it is recalling 1.9 million vehicles worldwide for an air bag defect that is linked to three deaths and five injuries.
September 16, 2016
Liability
Subrogation
Alabama Teen Hits Camel Crossing The Road
A teenage driver was injured Monday night when his vehicle hit a camel crossing a road in Sardis City in Etowah County. The camel was euthanized this morning as a result of his injuries, according to Sardis City Police Chief James Harp.
September 15, 2016
Auto
Liability
Weird
Alabama
Chinese Man Blames Tesla Autopilot Function For Sons Crash
A Chinese man suing Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) after his son was killed while driving one of the U.S. car makers vehicles argues that the responsiveness of the cars "autopilot" function was responsible for the accident, his lawyer said.
September 15, 2016
Auto
Liability
Litigation
Technology
Construction Workers Start Apartment Building Fire
Orem firefighters responded to a two-alarm residential fire Monday afternoon. According to Ryan Peterson with the Orem Fire Department, the fire started at 730 E. 950 South at about 11:35 a.m. The fire was at building B of the Aston Apartments, part of the University Place complex near Costco.
September 14, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Utah
School Bus Cameras Reveal Lots Of Drivers Passing Illegally
As students return to class,some school districts are releasing dramatic videos to highlight the dangers from drivers who fail to stop for school.
September 14, 2016
Liability
Texas
374K Haul Master Trailers Recalled For Missing Side Lights
Harbor Freight Tools is recalling more than 374,000 trailers because they may not have red side marker lights as required by federal safety standards.
September 14, 2016
Liability
Subrogation



