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September 30, 2011
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National

Extreme Weather Makes Portable Generators a Hit

Alex Iwashyna didn't realize how many of her neighbors in Richmond, Virginia, had backup generators until her own family bought one in the ...

Government Changes Course on Pool Safety Rule

Thousands of public pools in cities and towns nationwide will be taking a fresh look at their safety systems after federal regulators ...

Big Recall of Little Tikes Play Tool Sets

More than 1.7 million toy workshop and tool sets from toy-maker Little Tikes are being recalled because of choking concerns. The Consumer ...
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East

New 75 Mph Limit Puts Maine in the Fast Lane

If you drive along Interstate 95 in the nation's far northeastern corner, "it's trees, trees, trees'' for mile after mile, says one ...

Fan’s Suit Over Fishbone Stage-Dive Injury in Penn. Upheld

A woman who broke her skull and collarbone when a member of the band Fishbone dived from a Philadelphia stage will soon have her day in ...

New Jersey Flood Victims Share $116 Million So Far

Dina Zampelle expects that by December, her credit score will be as muddied as her central New Jersey home. That's because unless the ...

Man Charged with Setting 7 Fires in Frederick, Md.

Frederick police have charged a man with setting seven fires in Frederick since March. Thirty-four-year-old Jason Edward Fauble of no fixed ...
Midwest

‘Deficient’ Indiana Bridge Needs $8 Million in Repairs

Inspections of a bridge that links southwestern Indiana with southern Illinois show that the 80-year-old span needs about $8 million in ...

Indiana Fines Aluminum Foundry for Safety Violations

State officials have fined a central Indiana foundry more than $10,000 for allegedly violating the state's health and safety regulations. ...

Berkshire Unit to Acquire Another Malpractice Firm

Berkshire Hathaway's malpractice insurance unit is acquiring the Princeton Insurance Company to expand its business. Medical Protective ...
Southeast

Alabama Town Strikes Deal With BP Over Lost Revenue

The city of Orange Beach has reached a settlement with BP PLC over lost revenues stemming from last year's Gulf oil spill, with the oil ...

Alabama Tornado Victims Adjust to Small Mobile Homes

The Orricks' 84-foot mobile home had a bath tub with water jets that helped ease Terry Orrick's persistent back pain. Today, Terry and his ...

NWS Says Tornado Caused Bolivar, Miss. Damage

The National Weather Service has determined a tornado caused damage to homes and business in Bolivar County. Between the hours of 8 p.m. ...
South Central

Feds Sue Texas Firm for Firing 600-Pound Employee

The federal government has filed suit against BAE Systems alleging the company has violated disability laws by firing a morbidly obese ...

Texas Fire Burns Some of Set for 2003 Film “The Alamo”

An assistant fire chief in Texas says a wildfire has destroyed part of the set for the 2003 film "The Alamo'' and charred at least 150 ...
West

Calif. Detective Pleads No Contest to Insurance Fraud

A Los Angeles police detective has pleaded no contest to workers' compensation insurance fraud for running two private businesses while out ...

Calif. City Must Pay $4M for Mudslide Death

The California Supreme Court says Mill Valley must pay $4 million to the family of a man killed in a mudslide at their home. Walter Guthrie ...

Lady Gaga Sues Nevada-based Company Over Trademark Bids

Lady Gaga says a Nevada-based company is trying to horn in on her fame to market cosmetics and jewelry. She's suing in New York. The Grammy ...
International

28 Bodies Bring India’s Monsoon Flood Toll to 335

Authorities stepped up efforts Thursday to deliver food and evacuate villagers stranded by monsoon flooding in eastern India, as searchers ...

Signal Maker: Not to Blame for Shanghai Rail Crash

The China-based maker of signaling systems for the Shanghai subway line where two trains crashed this week, injuring 284 people, said ...

Trains Collide in Venezuela, Toll Unclear

Venezuela's transportation minister says two trains have collided outside Caracas and that officials are headed to the site. Transportation ...

Strong Quake Rocks Northeast Japan

A strong earthquake has rocked northeastern Japan, which is still recovering from the devastating tsunami six months ago. The quake ...

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Nationwide, Harleysville CEOs Reassure Agents: Merger All About Growth

The merger of insurer Nationwide Mutual with regional carrier Harleysville Mutual is all about growth, not only for the companies but also ...

Federal Flood Insurance Program Extended Briefly

The House of Representatives yesterday approved a temporary continuing resolution that funds the government through next Tuesday, Oct. 4, ...

SEC Concedes Challenges in Probes of Rating Agencies

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission faces hurdles proving wrongdoing at credit-rating agencies, the agency's enforcement chief ...

Federal Agency Alters Public Pool Safety Rule

Thousands of public pools in cities and towns nationwide will be taking a fresh look at their safety systems after federal regulators ...

Millennium Brokerage Forms Long Term Care Program Through Physicians Financial

Millennium Brokerage Group (MBG) has launched a new long term care (LTC) program that will be available to physicians and their families ...

Insurer Retools Home Value Insurance Coverage

Home Value Insurance Co. has re-entered the insurance market with a product that promises to protect homeowners from falling home values. ...

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East

D.C. Metro Sues Insurer Lexington for $13M Over Lost Revenue

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has recently filed a lawsuit against its insurer Lexington Insurance Co. of Boston charging ...

Berkshire Hathaway to Buy N.J.-based Princeton Insurance

Berkshire Hathaway's medical professional liability insurance unit, Medical Protective Co., is purchasing New Jersey-based Princeton ...

New Jersey Flood Victims Have Received $16M in Federal Aid

Dina Zampelle expects that by December, her credit score will be as muddied as her central New Jersey home. That's because unless the ...

Irene Generated 28,500 Insurance Claims in Massachusetts

Tropical Storm Irene has generated an estimated 28,500 claims, totaling over $90 million in Massachusetts, according to latest estimates by ...

New York Law Requires Risk Reports by Group Homes

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a law requiring that group homes and other private facilities licensed by the state to house  ...

Pennsylvania Injury Lawsuit Over Band’s Stage-Diving Upheld

A woman who broke her skull and collarbone when a member of the band Fishbone dived from a Philadelphia stage will soon have her day in ...

Allstate, Encompass Fined for Violating Delaware Insurance Law

Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart has fined Allstate Insurance Co. and its subsidiary Encompass Insurance Co. a total of ...
Midwest

Plaintiffs Notch Legal Win in Illinois Cigarette Suit

The Illinois Supreme Court has cleared the way for plaintiffs' attorneys to push that a $10.1 billion verdict against cigarette-maker ...

Kansas Storm Damage Insurance Claims Set Record

Spring and summer storms in Kansas have led to more than $1 billion in insurance claims this year. The Kansas Department of Insurance ...

MJ Insurance Named Best Practices Agency for 8th Consecutive Year

Indianapolis, Ind.-based property/casualty and employee benefit agency, MJ Insurance, for the eighth consecutive year has been recognized ...

Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau: Lower Rates for Public Employers Proposed

Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Stephen Buehrer has proposed an overall five percent decrease in rates for ...
Southeast

Nursing Home Case Spotlights West Virginia’s Malpractice Damages Cap

Lawyers for a West Virginia nursing home are preparing to take a case to the state's Supreme Court on the grounds that a $91.5 million ...

After Embezzlement Claim, Insurer Drops Tennessee County’s Policy

Officials in Shelby County in Tennessee said their insurance company is not renewing the county's policy protecting against financial ...

BP Pays Alabama City $1.2M for Revenues Lost Due to Oil Spill

The city of Orange Beach, Alabama has reached a settlement with BP PLC over lost revenues stemming from last year's Gulf oil spill, with ...

Failed Alabama Bank Executives Settle Investor Lawsuit for $10.5M

Officers and directors of failed Colonial BancGroup in Alabama, including Auburn University trustee Bobby Lowder and former Auburn football ...
South Central

Agriculture Losses from Texas Wildfires Adding Up

In addition to the $5.2 billion in agricultural losses as a result of the drought in Texas this year, an additional $150 million in losses ...

Texas Man Sentenced to 60 Years for $100M Insurance Fraud

After hearing tearful testimony from several people whose life savings were stolen, a federal judge in Virginia sentenced a former Texas ...

Oklahoma Governor Announces Storm Shelter Rebate Offer

Oklahoma homeowners will be eligible for a cash rebate of up to $2,000 for the installation of a qualified tornado shelter under a program ...

Shoemake Ushered in as President of Alamo Chapter of CPCU

The Alamo Chapter Society of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) in San Antonio, Texas, announced that Susan G. Shoemake ...

Harris County Flood Control District Unveils New Flood Mapping Tool

The Harris County Flood Control District announced it has launched a new tool to help Harris County, Texas, residents gain knowledge about ...
West

Workers' Compensation Rate Hike for Oregon

The Department of Consumer and Business Services announced the pure premium rate for workers' compensation will increase 1.9 percent ...

Wells Fargo’s Insurance Unit Buys Reno Firm

The insurance unit of Wells Fargo & Co. has purchased ISU Stetson-Beemer Insurance, an insurance brokerage and consulting firm in Reno, ...

MOC Insurance Services Combines with San Francisco Insurance Center

San Francisco Insurance Center has joined MOC Insurance Services, the two Northern California firms announced on Thursday. Van Maroevich, ...

Aon Hires Two SVPs to Meet Southern California Growth

Judy Bamberger has been named senior vice president of business development for Los Angeles office of Aon Risk Solutions, a risk management ...
International

IAIS Study Indicates Big Insurers May Not Face Same Capital Rules as Banks

Insurance companies judged too big to fail are likely to face different rules than their banking counterparts, who were told this week that ...

Global Insurance Rates Flat Overall in Q3 Says Marsh

Insurance rates are rising for property in high-risk areas, while rates are falling for many lines of professional insurance, leading to an ...

Shell Singapore Refinery May Shut for a Month; Distillates Force Majeure

Royal Dutch Shell's Singapore refinery may remain shut for at least a month, industry sources said, and the company declared it would not ...

Typhoon Nesat Hits Hainan Island, China Mainland; AIR Analysis

Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide's latest bulletin on Typhoon Nesat notes that it "made landfall as a moderate Category 1 storm on ...

Climate Aid Progress May End Kyoto Rancor

U.N. climate talks resume in Panama next week, but expect more action in Cape Town 10 days later, where an informal panel will quietly ...

North P&I Club, GRAY PAGE to Vet ‘Armed Maritime Security Providers’

The North P&I club announced that it has joined forces with specialist maritime intelligence, investigation and crisis management ...

Ex- Swiss Re CEO Coomber Named as New ClimateWise Chairman

ClimateWise, the global insurance industry's leadership group on climate change, announced that John R. Coomber, Swiss Re's former CEO ...

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Daily Headlines: Thursday, September 29, 2011

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September 29, 2011
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National

Nationwide and Harleysville Combine

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and Harleysville Mutual Insurance Company and Harleysville Group Inc. today announced they have entered ...

Reebok to Pay $25M Over Toning Shoe Claims

Reebok International Ltd. will pay $25 million to customers to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that it made deceptive claims ...

Chubb Q3 Disaster Losses Up to $475 Million

Property insurer Chubb Corp Wednesday warned it would report up to $475 million in pretax catastrophe losses in the third quarter, most of ...

E. Coli Scare Prompts Tyson to Recall Ground Beef

Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. is recalling about 131,300 pounds of ground beef because a family in Ohio fell ill after eating meat produced by the ...
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East

Mass. Court Orders Chiropractor to pay $859,000 to Encompass

A Suffolk Superior Court judge ordered Jason Corbett and his chiropractic clinics (including Franklin Field, Hyde Park and Union Street ...

Washington D.C.’s Metro Files Lawsuit Against Insurer

Washington D.C.'s Metro has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $13 million from its insurance company, claiming that it has failed to pay ...

December Service Promised on Irene-Wrecked New York Rails

The Metro-North Railroad says service will resume along the length of the Port Jervis line by the end of the year. The line serves about ...

Pennsylvania Company Recalls Pureed Pork Products

Federal authorities say an eastern Pennsylvania company is recalling about 5,550 pounds of pureed pork products that may contain foreign ...

Coverys Hires Geraldine Russell as Claim Representative

Coverys, formerly ProMutual Group, a provider of medical professional liability insurance, recently hired Geraldine Russell, Esq. as a ...
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Midwest

Kansas Storm, Crop Damage Estimates Over $1B Mark

Storm and crop damage estimates in Kansas for 2011 have hit a record $ 1 billion, according to Kansas Department of Insurance (KID). ...

State Fair Collapse Suit Challenges Indiana's $5M Tort Cap

An Indiana law that caps the state's liability for damages at $5 million for a single event violates the U.S. and state constitutions and ...

Illinois AG Sues Chicago Area Home Repair Contractors

Three lawsuits against fraudulent home repair businesses accused of cheating Chicago area homeowners out of more than $600,000 for repairs ...

Minnesota Hospitals Warn Patients Laptop Stolen

Hospital officials say thousands of patients at Fairview and North Memorial hospitals may have been exposed to potential identity theft ...
Southeast

One Frustrated Florida County Tackles Auto Insurance Fraud On Its Own

One county in Florida has decided not to wait on state lawmakers' promise to address the insurance fraud and fix the state's automobile ...

Travelers Drops Tennessee County’s Fraud Protection Policy

Officials say an insurance company is not renewing Shelby County's policy protecting against financial crimes, a move that stems from an ...

Legoland Florida Rides Won’t be Regulated by State

Officials say the roller coasters and other rides at Legoland Florida won't undergo state safety inspections. That's because the theme ...

Georgia Plant Faces $64,000 OSHA Penalty

The Dixon Ticonderoga distribution center and imprinting plant in Macon faces a $64,000 penalty from the federal Occupational Safety and ...
South Central

Ad Campaign Seeks Limits on Civil Lawsuits in Louisiana

A coalition of business groups is using an advertising campaign to try to persuade Louisiana's legislature to limit lawsuits including ...

Texas-based Halliburton Must Pay $200M for Defective Bolts

Halliburton Co. said Wednesday that as a result of an arbitration panel ruling, it must pay Barracuda & Caratinga Leasing Co. $200 ...

Louisiana Insurance Agent Arrested on Fraud Charge

A Metairie insurance agent has been arrested on suspicion of filing a fraudulent insurance claim for a car accident. The state Department ...
West

Napa, Calif. Insurer Agrees to Settlement in Harassment Suit

A Napa insurance company has agreed to pay $230,000 to two female employees who claimed they were fired after complaining about sexual ...

Arizona Dust Storm May Have Caused 7 Car Wreck

A dust storm is moving through Arizona and may have caused a seven-car wreck on Interstate 10 that injured 13 people. Hector Vasquez, a ...

Crews Check for More Gas Leaks in Seattle, Wash.

Puget Sound Energy crews worked through the night checking for more natural gas leaks in the north Seattle neighborhood where a home ...

Calif. Worker Killed During Oil Rig Construction

A California oil field worker has been killed when a support beam collapsed during construction of a new drilling rig in Ventura County. ...

Calif. Judge Allows Punitive Damages in Scout Molestation Suit

A California judge says a boy suing the Boy Scouts of America for troop leader sexual abuse can seek punitive damages. The Santa Barbara ...
International

Satellite's Impact Pinned

NASA has pinpointed where its now famously falling satellite landed, and unless you are an insurer of someone who lives in the middle of ...

Shanghai Subway Crash Revives Safety Concerns

A crash on one of Shanghai's newest subway lines, the latest stumble in China's rush to roll out modern services, is focusing attention on ...

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