Top 10 for the Past Week | 1. | Mercury SIU Reveals All Time Craziest Claims
Jul 27, 2012 -- Think your job is tough? Try investigating arsonists, dirty law enforcement and opportunistic public transit riders seeking an illegal payday. That's just another day at the office for the Mercury Insurance Special Investigation Unit (SIU). Mercury ... | | 2. | Dangerous Spiders Infest Nebraska Man’s Apartment
Jul 27, 2012 -- An Omaha, Neb., man says he's been moving warily around his apartment, keeping watch for dangerous spiders that have moved in. Dylan Baumann tells Omaha television station KETV that he's been catching brown recluse spiders in his east-central Omaha ... | | 3. | Wal-Mart Sued by Disabled Over Payment Machines
Jul 27, 2012 -- Disability rights advocates filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., claiming the retail giant refuses to make payment machines accessible to customers who use wheelchairs and scooters. The plaintiffs allege that Bentonville, ... | | 4. | U.S. ‘Bath Salts’ Ban Aimed at Violence-Linked Drugs
Jul 26, 2012 -- People are inventing so many new, legal ways to get high that U.S. lawmakers can't seem to keep up. Over the past two years, the country has seen a surge in the use of synthetic drugs made of legal chemicals that mimic the dangerous effects of ... | | 5. | Widow of Wisconsin Man Found Dead in Pulp Vat Drops Lawsuit
Jul 26, 2012 -- The widow of a man found dead in a pulp vat at a Green Bay, Wis., paper mill has dropped the civil lawsuit she filed 19 years ago. Attorney Bruce Bachhuber tells the Green Bay Press-Gazette Susan Monfils and her family have decided to move on. ... | | 6. | American Family Launches Home Inventory App
Jul 26, 2012 -- DreamVault, a new home inventory application launched by Madison, Wis.-based American Family Insurance, is available online at www.amfam.com and www.amfamlatino.com (Spanish version) and as an app for iPhone and Android users. "Whether you rent or ... | | 7. | Liberty Mutual Announces Realignment; Names 4 Unit Executives
Jul 26, 2012 -- Boston-headquartered insurance giant Liberty Mutual said it is realigning its strategic business units. The company — which reported $139 million profit for its 2012 second-quarter earlier Wednesday — also named executives that will lead each of ... | | 8. | BP Gulf Spill Report: Oil Industry, Regulators Miss Major Accident Indicators
Jul 26, 2012 -- Transocean and BP, trade associations, and U.S. regulators largely judged the safety of offshore facilities by focusing on routine personal injury and fatality data such as dropped objects and trips and falls when they should have been more focused ... | | 9. | Insurers for Colleges May Tighten Underwriting After Penn State Scandal
Jul 26, 2012 -- Liability insurance carriers and brokers that offer coverage to higher educational institutions have been watching the Penn State scandal unfold. And one broker says liability insurers are likely to tighten their underwriting and demand more data ... | | 10. | Insurer Fights Sandusky Coverage in Pennsylvania Lawsuits
Jul 25, 2012 -- The insurance company that wrote Jerry Sandusky's homeowner's policy says it should be exempt from civil lawsuits stemming from the ex-Penn State assistant coach's child sexual abuse case. State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. argues that its policy ... | | |
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