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This Week's Most Popular: Monday, December 16, 2013

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December 16, 2013

Top 10 for the Past Week

1.When is A Vehicle Considered a Total Loss?
Dec 5, 2013 -- When and whether a vehicle involved in a collision is considered to be "totaled" for first-party insurance purposes is an issue of great angst and confusion for most consumers. We hear horror stories about older, functioning automobiles being ...
2.Commentary: Why Do People Keep Suing Property Insurance Companies?
Dec 11, 2013 -- The question of why people continually sue property insurance companies is a perplexing one. The simple answer to this question which keeps claims and litigation managers at property insurance companies awake at night staring at the ceiling is that ...
3.Understanding Comparative Fault, Contributory Negligence and Joint & Several Liability
Sep 5, 2013 -- Effective subrogation requires a thorough understanding of some of the more confusing legal terms we must all work with. Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer, S.C. has compiled a list of the various laws in every state dealing with whether the state is ...
4.State by State Look at Driving Rules for Older Drivers
Sep 19, 2012 -- A 50-state look at the varying rules across the nation governing drivers' licenses for older adults. ALABAMA: Licenses are renewed every four years for all drivers, with no additional requirements for older drivers. A legislative committee ...
5.Botched Laser Surgery Victim Will Get $30M
Dec 9, 2013 -- A jury has recently awarded an additional $18 million to a woman whose botched surgery at a Wenatchee, Wash., hospital left her unable to speak. The Wenatchee World reports that Becky S. Anderson was having polyps removed from her vocal cords with a ...
6.Vermont Ski Resort Worker Says Accident Was his Fault
Dec 11, 2013 -- A snowboard instructor says he was at fault in a skiing accident at the Jay Peak ski resort in which a 5-year-old girl was seriously injured. But William Vincent of Montgomery tells a federal court that he was employed by the resort at the time. The ...
7.Photographer Ordered to Repay More Than $60,000 in Workers' Comp Benefits
Dec 9, 2013 -- An Ohio man was ordered to repay more than $60,000 to the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) for working while receiving workers' comp benefits. Elvin Hamilton pleaded guilty Nov. 22 to one count of workers' compensation fraud, a ...
8.Deep-Sea Study Reveals Cause of 2011 Tsunami
Dec 9, 2013 -- The devastating tsunami that struck Japan's Tohoku region in March 2011 was touched off by a submarine earthquake far more massive than anything geologists had expected in that zone. Now, a team of scientists including McGill University geologist ...
9.Insurance and Regulation Remain Obstacles to Amazon Drones
Dec 10, 2013 -- For Amazon's recently announced drone delivery system to get off the ground, the company will have to solve numerous difficult technological challenges. Chief among them will be increasing battery life, getting the drones to work without a central ...
10.CoreLogic Report Highlights Significant U.S. Natural Disasters in 2013
Dec 12, 2013 -- A record low number of natural hazard events and unusual sinkhole activity were the highlights of 2013, according to CoreLogic, a  residential property information, analytics and services provider. The company released its annual Natural Hazard ...

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