Top 10 for the Past Week | 1. | Government Gene Sleuths Stop Superbug That Killed 6
Aug 24, 2012 -- Over six frightening months, a deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics spread in the nation's leading research hospital. Pretty soon, a patient a week was catching the bug. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health locked down patients, ... | | 2. | Tropical Storm Isaac Takes Aim at Haiti, Dominican Republic
Aug 24, 2012 -- Tropical Storm Isaac headed toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Friday, continuing its march across the Caribbean after unleashing heavy rain on parts of Puerto Rico. Isaac also posed a threat to Florida, where it could pass near the state's ... | | 3. | Slideshow: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Andrew
Aug 23, 2012 -- Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida with winds topping 160 mph on August 24, 1992, devastating several communities before striking the Louisiana coastline. According to the Insurance Information Institute (III), prior to Hurricane Katrina, Andrew ... | | 4. | Croc Rips Homeless Man’s Right Hand in Cancun
Aug 23, 2012 -- Mexican authorities say a crocodile attacked a homeless man and bit off his right hand near a lagoon in the resort city of Cancun. Cancun tourist police say in a Tuesday statement that Alejandro Lopez was wandering near an area of mangroves when he ... | | 5. | Missouri Revises Insurance Rules After Joplin Tornado
Aug 23, 2012 -- The Missouri insurance department says new regulations for mutual insurance companies are intended to prevent a run on their finances similar to what happened after the deadly Joplin tornado. Missouri's new rule will require mutual insurance ... | | 6. | Travelers Sues NFL Over Ex-Players’ Brain Injury Lawsuits
Aug 23, 2012 -- Several subsidiaries of Travelers Companies Inc sued the National Football League and a host of other insurers, seeking to avoid paying to defend the league against a wave of brain injury-related claims by thousands of former players and their ... | | 7. | Study: Hurricane Andrew Three Times as Costly in 2012
Aug 22, 2012 -- There have been 28 storms in U.S. history since 1900 which if they were happen today would each cause $10 billion or more in insured losses. Experts at catastrophe risk management firm Karen Clark & Co. (KCC) said they examined the nearly 180 ... | | 8. | Stepping Outside of UM Coverage: Assaults by an Insured Outside a Vehicle
Aug 22, 2012 -- Recently, the Colorado Court of Appeals found that a road rage incident involving the use of a vehicle to block a second car in order to commit an assault of the occupants of the second car did not involve the use of the uninsured motor vehicle ... | | 9. | Progressive Reaches Settlement in Auto Claim Case Amid Online Protest
Aug 21, 2012 -- Progressive Corp. announced Thursday it reached a settlement with the family of Kaitlynn Fisher — a Progressive policyholder who died in an auto accident when her car was struck by an under-insured driver in Baltimore in 2010. The insurance giant ... | | 10. | Latest Weather Events Normal or an Anomaly
Aug 21, 2012 -- Recently used weather terms, including haboobs and derechos (pronounced day-ray-cho), may leave some wondering what the unfamiliar words mean. Weather experts say these terms have been around a long time and have just been picked up by mass media. A ... | Popular Videos | |
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