Thursday 10 November 2011

Daily Headlines: Thursday, November 10, 2011

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November 10, 2011
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National

Navigating the Tripartite Relationship

Investigating and defending catastrophic injury claims involves careful navigation of the tripartite relationship that exists among the ...

Toyota Recalls 550,000 Vehicles on Steering Issue

Toyota Motor Co is recalling 550,000 vehicles worldwide, including more than 420,000 in the United States, to replace an engine component ...

U.S. Reopens Doctor Data Access, With Some Caveats

The U.S. government reopened public access to a database of malpractice claims and damages paid by doctors, with new restrictions that ...

Allstate Announces $1 Billion Share Buyback Plan

Allstate Corp's board of directors has approved a new $1 billion share repurchase program. The Northbrook, Illinois-based company will ...
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East

N.Y. Man: Thrown Bowling Ball Hit Me in the Face

Police in Niagara Falls are investigating a reported assault with a bowling ball. Authorities tell The Buffalo News that a man told police ...

Maine Officials Propose Crack Down on Scrap Metal Thefts

Waterville, Maine's police chief is proposing new legislation intended to crack down on the theft of copper and other metals for sale as ...

Obama Declares Disaster for D.C. After Earthquake

President Barack Obama has signed a disaster declaration for the District of Columbia as a result of an earthquake this summer. Tuesday's ...

‘Miracle’ at Castle Rock, Wash. Church Defies Arson

The pastor of the United Methodist Church in Castle Rock, Wash., says it's a miracle her church survived an attempted arson in which fires ...

Trapped Workers Rescued from N.Y. Building Collapse

Firefighters have pulled three workers out of the rubble of a New York City construction collapse. The Fire Department of New York says ...
Midwest

Indiana Town Cleaning Up from Water Tower Collapse

A small town in northwestern Indiana is cleaning up and trying to figure out what caused its 250,000-gallon water tower to collapse. Homes ...

Elderly N.D. Woman Reaches Settlement in Fatal Crash

The two sides in a civil lawsuit involving a 94-year-old North Dakota woman who was involved in a fatal vehicle accident have reached a ...

Ohio Business Lacked Workers' Comp Coverage, Owes Over $200,000

Ralph Gearhart, owner of Ohio State Roofing, Inc., who operated his business for more than a decade without proper workers' compensation ...

2,100 Leaking Underground Tanks Litter Indiana

The state environmental agency is in the midst of using $4 million in federal money to clean up 28 sites around Indiana with leaking ...
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Southeast

Fla. Calls for More Oversight in Check Cashing Industry Role in Workers' Comp

Check cashing companies in Florida may be saddled with new regulations for their role in facilitating workers' compensation fraud in the ...

Mysterious Crow Deaths in S.C. Linked to Pesticide

Tests at Clemson University show the mysterious deaths of at least 23 crows around the Bluffton Schools Complex was the result of a ...

Florida Crane Operator Injured in Dock Collapse

Authorities say a crane operator was injured when the dock under the machinery collapsed in Tampa. The accident happened Tuesday evening at ...

Chaney Wins Re-election as Miss. Insurance Commissioner

Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney won re-election in Tuesday's voting in Mississippi. Chaney, a Republican from Vicksburg, defeated ...
South Central

Coast Guard OKs Winding Down BP Spill Cleanup

BP will no longer be responsible for cleaning up oil that washes up on the Gulf Coast unless officials can prove it comes from the ...

Former Lousiana Parish Employee Sues

A former Terrebonne Parish employee has filed suit in federal court claiming she was fired because of her age. The suit says Barbara Dupre, ...

Aftershock Damages Dozens of Okla. Homes, Closes Schools

The strongest aftershock yet to hit in the wake of last weekend's earthquake in central Oklahoma damaged dozens of homes, closed some ...
West

Oregon Transit Agency Silent on Train Crash

Portland, Oregon's regional mass transit agency considered it a "minor service disruption'' when one of its light rail trans crashed into a ...

Powerful Storm Rips Off Roofs, Floods Alaska

A powerful Bering Sea storm hit western Alaska early Wednesday with high winds and surging seas, the National Weather Service said. Some ...

PG&E to Pay $38M Fine in ’08 Calif. Gas Explosion

PG&E Corp. has agreed to pay a $38 million fine for a 2008 gas pipe explosion that killed a Rancho Cordova homeowner. It's the largest ...
International

Abracadabra! Dutch Magician Fined for Copyright Infringement

A magician has been fined (euro) 12,205 ($16,725) by a Dutch court for putting a rival's trick up his sleeve and trying to pass it off as ...

16 Killed as Buses Crash Head-on in Nigeria

Authorities say 16 people are dead in Nigeria after two buses crashed head-on into each other on a highway. Sunday Maku of the Federal Road ...

Thai Opposition Wants More for Flood Relief

Thailand's former prime minister added to growing criticism of his successor over her administration's flood response, saying Wednesday ...

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