Increased Regulations For Commercial Drivers Have Not Improved Safety
Theres no question that driver fatigue poses a serious threat to safety on our nations roadways. But just how bad is the threat?
August 25, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Legislation & Regulation
Liability
Workers' Compensation
Family Of Gun Instructor Killed By Girl Sues Shooting Range
The family of an Arizona shooting range instructor who was accidentally killed by a 9-year-old girl with an Uzi has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the business.
August 25, 2016
Liability
Arizona
School Bus Crash Kills Driver, Injures 7 Children
The investigation continues into a school bus crash in Midland Monday morning, where seven children were injured and the bus driver has died.
August 24, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Workers' Compensation
Georgia
San Francisco Taxi Plows Into Sidewalk Shoeshine Stand
Authorities say three people are critically injured Tuesday after a taxi jumped a curb and plowed into an advertising kiosk and a shoeshine stand at a busy corner in downtown San Francisco.
August 24, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
California
Insurer May Sue Tesla Over Autopilot Accident
A Texas man said the Autopilot mode on his Tesla Model S sent him off the road and into a guardrail, bloodying his nose and shaking his confidence in the technology. He doesnt plan to sue the electric-car maker, but his insurance company might.
August 24, 2016
Liability
Litigation
Subrogation
Technology
Texas
27 Or More Vehicles Piled Up On Georgia Interstate
Thirteen people were hospitalized Sunday after an accident involving more than two dozen vehicles on an interstate north of Atlanta, officials told NBC News.
August 23, 2016
Auto
Liability
Georgia
Labor Day Weekend Driving May Be Deadlier Than Ever
Often, trends are a good thing. However, the current trend - and increase in fatal motor vehicle accidents - could result in the United States experiencing its deadliest driving year since 2007. And with Labor Day coming up, traditionally a deadly weekend on U.S. roads, the National Safety Council is warning drivers to be aware on the roads.
August 23, 2016
Auto
Liability
California
Florida
Georgia
Indiana
Kentucky
Driver Confuses Pedals, Runs Into Park Concertgoers
Several people were injured Sunday night when a car drove onto a dance floor at an outdoor concert in Parma Heights, a suburb south of Cleveland.
August 22, 2016
Auto
Liability
Ohio
Deadly Collision Of Two Transit Buses In New Jersey
Two NJ Transit buses collided in a "T-bone" crash Friday in New Jersey, killing two people and injuring 17 others. Shortly after 6 a.m. Friday, a NJ Transit bus - the 59 line to Westfield - collided with the 13 bus that was traveling from Irvington to Belleville, according to the Essex County Prosecutors Office.
August 22, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
New Jersey
Five Die As Airborne Car Hits Two Others On Long Island Highway
Five people, including a 10-year-old boy, were killed on Sunday when a car driver lost control and his vehicle became airborne, striking two cars traveling in the opposite direction on the Long Island Expressway, police said.
August 22, 2016
Auto
Liability
New York
Wild Transit Bus Ride Ends With 17 Hospitalized
It was like the scene out of a movie, an out of control bus slams into cars, houses, a church and a dumpster before coming to rest on a porch, with it all unfolding in real life in Lebanon late Wednesday night.
August 18, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Pennsylvania
Oklahoma Shaken By Another, Stronger Earthquake This Week
A 4.3 magnitude earthquake has struck central Oklahoma in the same area thats been rattled by quakes over the past week.
The U.S. Geological Survey says Wednesdays quake was centered near Luther, about 28 miles northeast of Oklahoma City.
August 17, 2016
Legislation & Regulation
Liability
Oklahoma
The U.S. Geological Survey says Wednesdays quake was centered near Luther, about 28 miles northeast of Oklahoma City.
Six Children Shocked On Ocean Beach Park Ride
A half dozen kids were shocked by electricity on a Connecticut boardwalk ride Tuesday, police said. The six children were rushed to a local hospital with minor injuries after being shocked on the Scrambler at Ocean Beach Park in New London.
August 17, 2016
Liability
Connecticut
Credit Card Payment Systems Hacked At HEI Hotels In 10 States
HEI Hotels & Resorts provided a list of hotels20 hotels in 10 states and the District of Columbiathat suffered a "security incident," in which payment card data of customers may have been affected. "HEI was recently alerted to a potential security incident by its card processor," HEI said in a statement released Friday.
August 16, 2016
Liability
Technology
California
Colorado
District Of Columbia
Florida
Illinois
Lamborghini Driver Protected By High-End Crash Cell In Car-Splitting Accident
The driver was pulled from the car mere moments before it erupted into flames. A burned and broken sports car strewn across the streets of Chicago isnt a pretty sight.
August 16, 2016
Auto
Liability
Illinois



