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National

More Alcohol and Traffic Laws Mean Fewer Traffic Deaths

States with a higher number of alcohol- and traffic-related laws have a lower proportion of traffic deaths than do states with fewer such ...

Insurance and Regulation Remain Obstacles to Amazon Drones

For Amazon's recently announced drone delivery system to get off the ground, the company will have to solve numerous difficult ...

Lawmakers Want Cameras on Train Tracks, Engineers

A week after four people died in a New York commuter train derailment, two federal lawmakers proposed Sunday that trains nationwide be ...

Safety Agency Could Expand Hyundai Air Bag Recall

U.S. safety regulators are looking into whether a Hyundai Elantra recall should be expanded. The National Highway Traffic Safety ...

Rachel Ehrlich Joins CAMICO as Vice President - Chief Claims Officer

CAMICO, a national CPA-focused insurance and risk management program for the accounting profession, has appointed Rachel Ehrlich as vice ...
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East

Massachusetts Group Seeks to Extend Time Sex Abuse Victims Can Sue

Child welfare advocates are calling on the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to back legislation that would extend the time ...

New Hampshire Ranks Just Below Average on Disaster Prep

New Hampshire health officials say the state is improving its ability to protect people during disasters, but it could be doing more to ...

State Farm Helps New Hampshire Expand Highway Safety Patrol

The state of New Hampshire is expanding its Highway Safety Patrol, which helps stranded motorists. The patrol is now operating in Nashua, ...

Virginia Holiday Parade Float Fire Caused by Generator

Virginia Beach, Va., fire officials say a generator caused a fire that broke out on a float during a holiday parade. Media outlets report ...
December 18: The 5 Senses in the Claims Process - New webinar from Academy of Insurance
Midwest

Another House Burns at Detroit Heidelberg Project

Another structure that is part of Detroit's Heidelberg Project outdoor art installation has been destroyed by what officials said was a ...

Traffic Camera Suit May Impact Cities Across Ohio

A lawsuit challenging how Ohio's fourth-largest city hands out citations and fines to drivers caught speeding and running red lights on ...

Internet Giants Weigh in on Cincinnati Bengals Cheerleader Defamation Suit

From Twitter and Facebook to Amazon and Google, the biggest names of the Internet are blasting a federal judge's decision in a defamation ...

Michigan Workers' Comp Costs per Claim Low Prior to 2011 Reforms: WCRI

The total costs for a workers' compensation claim in Michigan were low compared with other states according to a recent study by the ...
Southeast

Camera Used in Alabama City Issues 784 Traffic Fines

Tuscaloosa, Ala., has used a traffic monitoring camera to issue more than 780 citations in the past three months. The Tuscaloosa News ...

New Storm Shelters Open In Mississippi County Today

George County, Miss., will officially open two new storm shelters Tuesday in Agricola and Benndale. The county began the construction of ...

Settlement Reached in Mississippi Bus Accident Lawsuit

Court records say Greyhound Bus Lines Inc. and a woman who sued the company over a 2008 accident in south Mississippi have reached a ...

West Virginia Students Tend to Miners in Fake Accident

Students at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine tried to save their patients, but no matter what they could have done, there ...
South Central

South Texas Jury Awards $281M in Negligence Lawsuit

The family of a man killed by a part breaking off a truck doing Eagle Ford Shale oilfield work has won a $281 million lawsuit judgment from ...

Police Investigate Theft of Oklahoma Church Bell

Authorities are investigating after someone stole a 1,000-pound bell from an Enid, Okla., church. The Enid News & Eagle reports that the ...

Deadly Arkansas Railway Crossing Accidents Worry Officials

Representatives from Ashdown, Ark., and the Kansas City Southern Railway Co. say that after the death of another motorist in a ...
West

Researcher Speaks to Montana Farmers About Long-Term Weather Predictions

What if decade-long cycles of wet and dry weather could be reliably predicted several years in advance? The economic benefit could be in ...

Low Airspeed Blamed for 2012 Crash in Oregon

The National Transportation Safety Board says a plane crash that killed four people near Veneta, Ore., in 2012 was likely caused by the ...

Workforce Services Data Breach Could Affect up to 97K Utah Residents

State officials say a data breach could affect as many as 97,000 Utahns who receive benefits through the state Department of Workforce ...
International

EU Warns Nokia Not to Become 'Patent Troll'

Europe's top regulator has warned Nokia not to try to become a "patent troll" after the Finnish company sold most of its cellphone-making ...

Witness Said 100s Aboard Costa Ship When Captain Fled

A Italian Coast Guard official has testified that hundreds of people were still aboard the shipwrecked Costa Concordia when the commander ...

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