5 Injured As Stolen Tractor-Trailer Rams Cars In Colorado
The driver of a stolen tractor-trailer in Colorado deliberately rammed into vehicles and caused numerous injuries before finally being taken into custody by police, who fired on the rig in an effort to stop the rampage, authorities said Sunday.
April 30, 2018
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Subrogation
Colorado
Hog Farms Neighbors Awarded $50M After Suing Over Smells, Spraying
Families who live near a hog farm in Bladen County, N.C., have been complaining for decades about bad smells, flies and excessive chemical spraying.
April 27, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Litigation
North Carolina
Dippin Dots CEO In DUI Crash That Damaged Two Homes
The CEO of ice cream empire Dippin Dots was arrested earlier this month after he allegedly crashed his car into a power line pole and two houses in Oklahoma, police revealed Wednesday.
April 27, 2018
Auto
Liability
Oklahoma
Kentucky Jury Awards $67.5M To Miners Who Used Defective Dust Masks
A Knott County jury has awarded $67.5 million in damages to two former coal miners who claimed defective dust masks led to their debilitating black-lung disease.
April 26, 2018
Liability
Litigation
Kentucky
Driving the Cost Of Auto Injury Insurance: Economic Losses, Attorney Involvement
A new study from the Insurance Research Council (IRC) shows that claimed economic losses for bodily injury liability (BI) insurance claims increased 10 percent annualized from 2012 to 2017, substantially above the medical inflation rate of 3 percent over the same period.
April 25, 2018
Liability
Litigation
Toronto Van Attack: How Insurance Applies To Vehicles Used As Weapons
If a rental vehicle is used as a murder weapon, the insurer could be on the hook if neither the driver nor the person renting the vehicle have auto insurance.
April 25, 2018
Auto
Liability
Speeding Semi Causes 9-Vehicle Pileup In Greeley, Colorado
Nine vehicle were damaged in a pileup caused by a speeding semitruck on Tuesday, the Greeley Police Department said.
April 20, 2018
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Colorado
Semi-Trailers Pile Up On Interstate In Whiteout Conditions
I-76 was shut down both ways on Tuesday afternoon after a pileup in the westbound lane. The incident took place about four miles west of Fort Morgan after a strong gust of wind created extremely low visibility.
April 19, 2018
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Subrogation
Colorado
Driver In Fatal Hit-And-Run Charged With Padding Insurance Claim
A Wheatfield hit-and-run fatality in 2014 continues to reverberate through local courtrooms. The driver who killed Ryan Fischer, 16, of North Tonawanda, faces charges of illegally padding an insurance claim he filed after the teenagers mother, who was drunk at the time, rammed his garage door and damaged his vehicle.
April 19, 2018
Auto
Fraud
Liability
New York
Airlines Inspecting Boeing 737 Engines After Fatal Southwest Incident
Some major customers of Boeing Cos popular 737 jets including Korean Air Lines Co Ltd said on Wednesday they were inspecting engines of the type that blew apart mid-air on a fatal Southwest Airlines Co flight on Tuesday.
April 18, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Pennsylvania
PG&E Jolted By Wildfire Lawsuit From Dozens Of Insurance Companies
Dozens of insurance companies have filed a lawsuit against PG&E in connection with the companys role in wildfires that scorched the North Bay wine country and nearby regions, litigation that intensifies the financial pressure on the embattled utility.
April 17, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Litigation
Property
Subrogation
California
Auto Industry Lawyers Warn Automated Driving Hype Will Be A Legal Matter
Deadly crashes involving Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) and Uber Technologies [UBER.UL] vehicles operating entirely or in part under automated systems have made a once-abstract problem very real for auto industry lawyers gathered at a recent conference.
April 16, 2018
Liability
Litigation
Technology
Jury Finds GEICO Insurance Guilty Of Bad Faith, Awards Almost $23 Million in Damages
Newport Beach law firm Allen, Flatt, Ballidis & Leslie announced today that an Orange County jury has found GEICO Indemnity Insurance Co. (GEICO) guilty of operating in bad faith and using organization-wide stalling tactics to drag out an auto insurance policy settlement with a disabled Irvine businessman for almost six years.
April 13, 2018
Liability
Litigation
Risk Management
California
West Virginia Sues Equifax Over Data Breach
West Virginia sued Equifax Inc on Thursday for failing to safeguard consumer information of hundreds of thousands of state residents and for delaying alerting the public to a breach that exposed the personal data of about 148 million people, the states attorney general said.
April 13, 2018
Liability
Litigation
West Virginia
1 Killed, 4 Injured When SUV Crashes Into Bus Shelter
A 67-year-old woman was killed and four other people were injured, including a 5-year-old girl, when a vehicle crashed into a bus shelter and caught fire Tuesday night in the Calumet Heights neighborhood.
April 12, 2018
Auto
Liability
Illinois



