A woman in Arizona has died after being hit by a self-driving car operated by Uber in what is believed to be the first time a pedestrian has been killed by an autonomous vehicle.

Insurance giant UnitedHealthcare is taking a page out of a competitor’s playbook to crack down on emergency room claims that critics say will be harmful to patients and hospitals.

Johnsonville, LLC, a Sheboygan Falls, Wis. establishment, is recalling approximately 109,603 pounds of smoked pork sausage products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

Six people have died from the collapse of a newly installed pedestrian bridge on Florida International University’s Miami campus, police said.

The Georgia State Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld a $40 million award to the family of a four-year-old boy killed in 2012 when the 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee in which he was riding was rear-ended and burst into flames.

Monday’s snowfall is just a memory; however, its dangerous impact persisted until late Tuesday morning. Multiple wrecks were reported Tuesday as slippery driving conditions met morning commuters.

A third wrongful death lawsuit has been filed over a natural gas rig explosion in Oklahoma that killed five workers. Julie Smith of McAlester, widow of Matthew Smith, filed the lawsuit Wednesday.

South Dakota on Wednesday sued three major drugmakers, accusing them of deceptively marketing prescription opioids and contributing to a nationwide epidemic.

The parents of one of the victims of Sunday’s deadly helicopter crash in New York’s East River have filed a lawsuit against the operator of the company, saying the harness their son wore on the flight prevented him from escaping.

Authorities say a blinding, late-afternoon snow squall caused an 81-vehicle pileup on a major highway in central Ohio, but no one was seriously hurt.

A little dog died on a United Airlines flight after an attendant forced the animal’s owner to put the pet in the cabin’s overhead bin, and the airline said on Tuesday it was taking full responsibility.

A bus carrying dozens of Texas high school band members home from a trip to Disney World plunged into a ravine off of an interstate highway in Alabama on Tuesday, killing its driver and injuring several others, authorities said.

Two class action lawsuit has been filed against University Hospitals following a refrigerator malfunction that has left the viability of 2,000 eggs and embryos in question.

I-94 has reopened near Jackson after icy roads resulted in multiple crashes and flipped semis, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s office.

Most people try to avoid a car wreck, but for some criminals a deliberate crash is seen as a ticket to quick riches. In South Carolina, a rising number of suspected insurance scammers have been flagged for submitting claims related to collisions that turn out to be no accident.