Friday 17 February 2012

Daily Headlines: Friday, February 17, 2012

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February 17, 2012
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National

Trucking Industry Fights Obama Rules on Driver Fatigue

Trucking companies are going to court to fight Obama Administration rules designed to assure that commercial truckers on the road get ...

Tainted Sprouts Again Linked to Jimmy John’s

Raw sprouts from the sandwich chain Jimmy John's have been linked to an outbreak of foodborne illness - again. The federal Centers for ...

XL and Hays Launch New Dental Professional Liability Insurance Program

XL Group plc's Select Professional insurance underwriting unit and Hays Affinity Solutions, a division of Hays Companies of Minneapolis, ...

Enservio Acquires Insurers World

Enservio, a property insurance analytics, affinity marketing and claims solutions provider, announced that the company has entered into a ...
East

Vermont School Says Cafeteria Plates Disappearing

A Vermont school district is trying to solve the problem of disappearing cafeteria plates. Trash bins at the Mount Anthony Union High ...

Equipment Failure a Factor in Virginia Officer’s Diving Death

Chesapeake, Va., police chief Kelvin Wright says equipment failure contributed to the death of an officer during a dive-team training ...

Connecticut Apartment Fire Injures 5, Displaces 35

An early morning fire that ripped through a Bridgeport, Conn., apartment building forced some people to jump from windows, but officials ...

New York Man Owes Facebook Lawyers $76K in Fees

A federal judge in western New York has ruled that Facebook's lawyers are entitled to $76,000 in legal fees from a man suing for part ...
Midwest

University of Missouri Conference to Commemorate New Madrid Quakes

Scientists and historians will gather at the University of Missouri in Columbia on Saturday for a conference commemorating the 200th ...

Nebraska Fraternity Buying Bed Bug Insurance Policy

Fearing the costs of combatting bed bugs, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln fraternity is taking out insurance against an infestation. Omaha ...

Federal Judge Deals Blow to Jordan in Ad Lawsuit

A federal judge in Illinois has struck a blow to Michael Jordan's lawsuit against a Chicago-area supermarket chain over a magazine ad three ...
Southeast

Judge Acquits 4 in Florida Insurance Fraud Case

A federal judge has acquitted four former insurance company executives on charges of defrauding $20 million from the Florida Hurricane ...

Earthquake Simulator to be Constructed at University of Alabama

There aren't very many rooms in the world that can successfully reproduce the devastating effects of an earthquake. But come May 1, a ...

Georgia Disaster Training Site Features 9th Ward Replica

Work is under way on what might be one of the most unique construction projects ever done in Middle Georgia. For years, the whisper of the ...

Florida Governor Witnesses Examples of Insurance Fraud

Cars collided in full view of Florida's highest ranking officials at the Pat Thomas Law Enforcement Academy, showcasing the dangerous ...
South Central

Texas Rape Victim Wins $20M Verdict Against Apartments

A Houston-area jury has returned a $20 million verdict for a rape victim who accused her apartment complex of not telling residents about ...

Louisiana Department of Insurance Recovers $5.3M in 2011

Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) aided Louisiana insurance consumers ...

No Seat Belts in 7 Out of 8 Louisiana Traffic Fatalities in 2012

Louisiana State Police report nine traffic-related fatalities so far this year. Out of those seven of eight people who died in motor ...
West

Las Vegas Study Looks at Heavyweight Boxers’ Brains

It's a question that has puzzled doctors since the days Joe Louis ruled the heavyweight division. Why do some fighters suffer brain damage ...

Utah Lawsuit: Swimmer Negligent in Fatal Boat Accident

Court papers filed for the defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit say a woman killed in a boating accident put herself in harm's way when ...

Company Fined Over Worker Death in Colorado

Federal officials have fined a Minnesota company nearly $12,000 for safety violations after a worker died in a grisly construction accident ...
International

Ukraine’s Death Toll From Cold Spell Reaches 151

Health officials say 151 people have died in the Ukraine during Eastern Europe's record-breaking cold spell, with alcohol regularly a ...

Former Executives, Bankers Arrested Over Olympus Fraud

Japanese police and prosecutors have arrested seven men, including the former president of Olympus Corp and ex-bankers over a $1.7 billion ...

Direct Line Italy Selects Guidewire Solution for Claims Management

Direct Line Italy, a direct auto insurer in Italy, and Guidewire Software, Inc., a provider of core system software to general ...

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