The daughter of the woman killed by an Uber [UBER.UL] self-driving vehicle in Arizona has retained a personal injury lawyer, underlying the potential high stakes of the first fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle.

Fire safety product maker Kidde is recalling nearly 500,000 smoke alarms that could be faulty.

A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday will ask automakers and regulators why tens of millions of vehicles with faulty Takata air bag inflators remain on the road years after deaths prompted the largest auto safety recall in history.

Four people were taken to a hospital after two freight trains collided and caught fire near Lexington, Kentucky, late Sunday night, forcing nearby residents to evacuate, authorities said.

A forklift accident at Fuyao Glass America killed an employee around five this morning.
The coroner identified the victim as 57-year-old Ricky Patterson. He was a forklift operator at the Moraine factory.

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.