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
One In Three Americans Hacked In The Past Year
More than one-third of U.S. consumers experienced a computer virus, hacking incident or other cyber attack in the past 12 months, a survey by Zogby Analytics for The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB) reported today, and young adults 18-24 were the most likely victims.
September 13, 2016
Liability
Technology
Is No-Fault Auto Insurance To Blame For High Rates, Fraud?
Michigan House members returned to work this week to decide whether theyll give the states motorists a break on their highest-in-the-nation auto insurance premiums.
September 12, 2016
Auto
Fraud
Liability
Michigan
High School Bus Crash At Denver Airport Kills Driver
A school bus carrying members and coaches of a Colorado high school football team crashed into a concrete pillar Sunday at Denver International Airport, killing the driver and injuring 18 passengers, authorities said.
September 12, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Colorado
Driver Plows Through Convenience Storefront After Pedal Mixup
Police in Clinton released startling video of an SUV crashing through the front of a convenience store. They said it happened at the Shell gas station at the intersection of East Main Street and Beach Park Road on Sept. 1.
September 12, 2016
Auto
Liability
Connecticut
Porch Collapse Injures Students Of Trinity College, Connecticut
Twenty-eight Trinity College students were taken to hospitals after the back porches on a college-owned house on Broad Street collapsed, hurling students and porch decks to the ground.
September 12, 2016
Liability
Property
Connecticut
FAA Urges Passengers to Not Use Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on Planes
U.S. air-safety regulators have taken the unusual step of singling out Samsung Electronics Co.s Galaxy Note 7 smartphone as a potential airborne fire hazard, urging passengers to avoid using the devices entirely on board airliners, dealing another blow to the technology giants smartphone recovery efforts.
September 9, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Legislation & Regulation
Liability
Technology
Florida Family says Jeep Totaled by Exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7
Just days after Samsung recalled its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, a St. Petersburg man says he found out the hard way why the recall was issued in the first place.
September 9, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Technology
Florida
Strong Oklahoma Quake Spotlights The Emerging Risk Of Fracking Activities
The 5.6-magnitude earthquake that struck Oklahoma Saturday was not only one of the strongest in state history, it was one of the first that insurance companies linked directly with hydrofracking and wastewater injection - an association that could lead to complications for quake coverage for homeowners and liability policies for oil and gas companies.
September 9, 2016
Liability
Litigation
Property
Oklahoma
Samsung Note 7 Possible Cause of South Carolina House Fire
A South Carolina man is looking for answers after his garage caught fire over the weekend. Horry County Fire Rescue investigators said the fire originated near a wall outlet where the mans phone was charging. The phone was a Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
September 8, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Technology
South Carolina
Small Aircraft Collide Over West Georgia Runway
Channel 2 Action News has confirmed three people are dead after two planes crashed in Carroll County on Wednesday.
The crash happened near West Georgia Regional Airport on Regional Road, according to Carroll County Fire PIO Bud Benefield.
September 8, 2016
Liability
Georgia
The crash happened near West Georgia Regional Airport on Regional Road, according to Carroll County Fire PIO Bud Benefield.
$1400 In Damages To Hotel Room From Exploding Galaxy Note 7
Yet another Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has spontaneously exploded, this time reportedly racking up more than $1,800 AUD ($1,383 USD) worth of damages in a mans hotel room.
September 7, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Technology
Semi Collision With Commuter Train Injures 21
Nearly two dozen people were injured when a Metrolink commuter train carrying nearly 200 passengers crashed into a semi truck on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, fire department officials said.
September 7, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
California
GM Reaches Settlement Of Two Bellwether Ignition Suits
General Motors Co (GM.N) said on Monday it settled the last two so-called bellwether cases stemming from a faulty ignition switch linked to 124 deaths and 275 injuries.
September 6, 2016
Liability
Litigation
Welder Sparked Intense Fire That Closed Liberty Bridge
Thousands of Pittsburghers will be going back to work Tuesday morning following the long Labor Day weekend, but theyll be coming into city without the benefit of the Liberty Bridge. The span has been closed since a fire last Friday.
September 6, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Pennsylvania



