Thursday 9 February 2012

Daily Headlines: Thursday, February 9, 2012

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February 9, 2012
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National

Pet Oxygen Masks Can Save Animals’ Lives in Fires

Firefighters in Ocala, Fla., found Hanna, a 2-year-old Siamese cat, lying in a smoky bedroom, unconscious and not breathing. Believing her ...

BP Wins Exclusion of Emails From Oil Spill Trial

BP Plc won a court order keeping several potentially damaging emails out of a scheduled trial to determine responsibility for the 2010 Gulf ...

85 Percent of Insurers Outsource Some Element of Information Technology

A new report by research and advisory firm Novarica, based on a survey of over 100 US insurer CIOs, finds that 85 percent are currently ...
New from Academy of Insurance: Secrets of Condos Property / Liability
East

‘Cupcake Wars’ Judge Settles Connecticut Name Lawsuit

A judge on the Food Network reality television show "Cupcake Wars'' has resolved her lawsuit with a Connecticut cupcake store over its ...

New York City Settles Loitering Lawsuit

New York City will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of thousands of people charged with loitering years after the laws ...

Pennsylvania City to Pay $207K in Firefighter’s Firing Lawsuit

The city of Erie, Pa., will pay nearly $207,000 to a firefighter who was wrongly dismissed following a 2006 suicide attempt in which she ...
Midwest

Nebraska Cattle Liability Bill Set for Hearing

Motorists who strike livestock on Nebraska roads could have a tougher time winning negligence lawsuits against farmers and ranchers, under ...

Menards Ends Discrimination Claim for $1 Million

The Menards home improvement chain has agreed to settle a race discrimination case for $1 million. A Chicago arbitrator recently approved ...

Settlement in Death of Missouri Student Hit by Bus

The family of a northwest Missouri teenager who died after being hit by a school bus reached a $5 million settlement with the bus company. ...

Ohio Attorney General Sues Roofing Company for Shoddy Work

The Ohio Attorney General announced a lawsuit against Murphy & Son, Inc, a Wickliffe-based roofing business charged with multiple ...

Walmart Fire in Central Ohio Ruled Arson

The state fire marshal says arson has been ruled as the cause of a fire at a Walmart in central Ohio. No one was injured in the blaze that ...
New from Academy of Insurance: Builders Risk / Contractors Equipment
Southeast

North Carolina Continues Auto Regulation Debate As Rates Stay Same for 2012

Auto insurers in North Carolina are once again divided over the prospect of changing how the state sets insurance rates with some insurers ...

Agents Raid 2 Florida CVS Stores in Prescription Drug Abuse Probe

Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raided two CVS pharmacies in Florida as part of an effort to curb the abuse of ...

FEMA Approves Grants for 1,159 Alabama Storm Shelters

A federal agency has approved grants to fund 1,159 new storm shelters at homes in Alabama following the deadly tornadoes last April. The ...

Florida Consumers File Class Action Suit Against Citizens

An 82-year-old woman from the Tampa Bay area trying to survive on a meager social security check is among customers of Citizens Property ...
South Central

Copper Thieves Plaguing Texas Businesses

Despite new laws making any theft of copper a state jail felony, thieves continue to plague Texas businesses by ripping away copper tubing ...

Dallas Hospital Board Declines to Release Safety Report

The board of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, has cited legal concerns and declined to make public a report on improving ...
West

California Wine Warehouse Arsonist Gets 27 Years Prison

A former California wine keeper convicted of destroying more than 4.5 million bottles in a warehouse fire was sentenced Tuesday to 27 years ...

Space Flight Liability Bill Grounded in New Mexico

Members of the New Mexico House and Senate have likely shelved for this session an effort to exempt spacecraft manufacturers from legal ...

Wyoming Air National Guard Practices Aerial Firefighting

The Wyoming Air National Guard is practicing fighting wildfires from the sky. Guard members plan to conduct training flights at the Camp ...

Colorado Lawmakers Review Spaceflight Liability

Hoping to help companies reach for the stars and lure a rapidly expanding industry to Colorado, state lawmakers are trying to promote space ...
International

European Agency Orders Global Check on A380 Wings

Europe's air safety authority ordered checks Wednesday on the entire global fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbo jets for cracks on parts inside ...

Partial Collapse of Building Kills 1 in Brazil

Brazilian firefighters say a 13-story building has partially collapsed in an industrial suburb outside Sao Paulo, killing a 3-year-old ...

Nepal’s Only International Airport Shut Due to Grass Fire

A grass fire has closed Nepal's only international airport and forced flights to divert to India. Police spokesman Raviraj Shrestha said ...

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