Wednesday 21 December 2011

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December 21, 2011
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National

More Crashes at Intersections With Flashing Lights

Intersections with flashing lights have three times more accidents than those with only stop signs and intersections with highway frontage ...

Air Bag Victim Lawyer Questions Honda Recall Scope

Georgia college student Kristy Williams was almost killed when a metal piece flew out of an air bag in her 2001 Honda Civic - a traumatic ...

XL Bolsters Casualty Group With Addition of Lefkowitz in Newly Created Position

XL Group plc's North America Primary Casualty group announced the addition of Jay Lefkowitz to a newly created position as head of U.S. ...

York Risk Services Group Acquires Avizent

York Risk Services Group (York), a national provider of claims-management, specialized loss adjusting, insurance pool administration and ...
East

Pennsylvania Gets $420M in Disaster Aid

The federal government has approved $420 million in disaster aid for Pennsylvanians hit by the one-two punch of Hurricane Irene and ...

New Jersey Man Admits Role in Failed Ship-Sinking Attempt

A southern New Jersey man has become the fourth person to plead guilty in a botched attempt to sink a fishing boat to collect insurance. ...

New York Top Court Allows Private Securities Claims

Enforcement by the state attorney general against securities fraud doesn't pre-empt private common-law claims of negligence against ...

FEMA Extends Deadline to Apply for Virginia Quake Aid

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has extended the deadline for Louisa County, Va., residents affected by the August ...
Midwest

Michigan Nonprofit Details Donations Lost in Weekend Fire

A charitable organization in Lansing, Mich., says a weekend fire destroyed more than six months' worth of donated clothing and possibly two ...

Former Employee Sues Nebraska Insurance Company

A former worker at Farmers Mutual Insurance Company of Nebraska is suing for employment discrimination. The Lincoln Journal Star says the ...

Michigan Woman Says She Put $700 in Gifts Into Wrong Car

A woman says she accidentally placed about $700 in Christmas gifts into a stranger's car after a key opened the vehicle's trunk in suburban ...

Report Suggests Pilot Error in South Dakota Crash

A preliminary report suggests a student pilot who died in a crash at the Sturgis airport in western South Dakota apparently lost control of ...
Southeast

Alabama Tornado Survivors Sought for Interviews

Public health agencies are looking to interview survivors of the killer tornadoes that hit north and central Alabama on April 27. State ...

Shell Shuts Rig After Leak of Drilling Fluid Off of Alabama Coast

Royal Dutch Shell said Monday that it has shut down an offshore drilling rig off the coast of Alabama following a leak of drilling fluid. ...

Florida Governor Pushing Lawmakers on Insurance Issues

Gov. Rick Scott wants lawmakers to fix a pair of auto and property insurance issues that are costing Floridians hundreds of millions of ...

2 Muslims Kicked Off Flight Sue Airlines

Two Muslim men who were kicked off an airplane in May after the pilot objected to their presence are suing Delta Air Lines Inc. and ...
South Central

Cargill Resumes Ground Turkey Production in Arkansas

Meat giant Cargill says a northwest Arkansas plant is again producing ground turkey. The Minnesota-based company said Monday that ground ...

Texas Man Sentenced on Workers' Comp Fraud Charges

Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported today that a Travis County district court sentenced Richard Merriman of Bryan, Texas, on workers' ...

EPA Reports Suggests Asbestos Exposure in Texas

An experimental asbestos demolition method used to tear down a Fort Worth apartment building four years ago may have exposed workers and ...

Restaurant Manager Accused of Theft

The manager of a Shreveport, La., restaurant has been accused of stealing money from the business. The Caddo Parish sheriff says ...
West

Deadly Snowstorm Halts Travel Across Great Plains

Fierce winds and snow that caused fatal road accidents and shuttered highways in five states, crawled deeper into the Great Plains early ...

Gay Couple Sue Hawaii B&B, Claim Discrimination

Two Southern California women filed a lawsuit Monday against a Hawaii bed and breakfast, saying the business denied them a room because ...

Paint Company Will Pay $1.65M in Colorado Fire Deaths

A California specialty painting company pleaded guilty Monday to five counts of violating federal workplace safety rules that resulted in ...

Colorado Apartment Fire Started Following Plumbing Work

Authorities say a fire that destroyed an 11-unit apartment complex near Basalt, Colo., started after plumbing work was performed in one of ...
International

China Probing Blast at Apple Supplier Factory

Authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion over the weekend that injured dozens of people at the Shanghai factory of a ...

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