Tuesday 11 September 2012

Daily Headlines: Tuesday, September 11, 2012

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September 11, 2012
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National

Predictive Modeling, Text Mining Most Popular Anti-Fraud Weapons

For insurers facing increased organized insurance fraud, predictive modeling and text mining will be the primary anti-fraud technology ...

U.S. To Cover Cancer Treatment for 9/11 Responders

The 70,000 surviving firefighters, police officers and other first responders who raced to the World Trade Center after the attacks of ...

Commercial Insurance Price Increase Largest in Last Eight Years: Survey

Commercial insurance prices in aggregate increased by 6 percent during the second quarter of 2012 -- the sixth consecutive quarter ...

Velvet Underground Loses Copyright Claim vs Warhol Over Banana

A federal judge has dismissed part of The Velvet Underground's lawsuit accusing the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts of violating ...

EagleView Introduces Wall Measurement Reports

Wash.-based EagleView Technologies now offers wall measurement reports for residential properties. "The introduction of wall measurement ...
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East

Status of World Trade Center Site, 11 Years Later

Eleven years after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the new multibillion-dollar World Trade Center once again dominates the ...

Images, Not Frequency, Make New York City Twisters Notable

Most people wouldn't say New York and tornado in the same breath. But two twisters that touched down in the nation's biggest city on ...

New York Senator Seeks Child-Protection Lids on Cleaner 'Pods'

A New York senator wants more protections for the colorful, tightly wrapped "pods" of gel laundry and dishwashing detergent that children ...

Officials: 2.1-Magnitude Earthquake in Connecticut

The U.S. Geological Survey has confirmed that a 2.1-magnitude earthquake that shook parts of Fairfield County on Friday night was centered ...
Midwest

FDA Warns Iowa Egg Farm Over Bacteria

A company that promised to clean up Iowa's egg industry after a nationwide salmonella outbreak in 2010 said Friday that a recent government ...

Ohio Driver Says Murals Caused Accident

A driver who rear-ended a van blames what happened on colorful 300-foot murals honoring an Ohio city's bicentennial. The Clintonville ...

Former City Worker Files Suit Over South Dakota Landfill Case

A former Rapid City, S.D., employee who was fired amid landfill-fee fraud allegations has filed a federal lawsuit. Former city landfill ...

3 Workers Hurt in Falls at Nebraska Job Site

Three Lincoln men have been injured in falls after a subfloor collapsed during a concrete pour in Omaha, Neb. Police say the three were ...
Southeast

Alabama Law Requires Ignition Locks for DUI Offenders

A new law in Alabama requires motorists convicted of drunken driving to install ignition interlocks on their vehicles, although police have ...

Mississippi Court Sides With Wal-Mart in Ammunition Lawsuit

If a store sells ammunition to an underage person who uses the bullets to kill someone, is the retailer responsible? Not necessarily, ...

Mississippi City's Emergency Radio System Will Be Costly

The city of Laurel, Miss., has agreed to pay nearly half the cost of a more than $9 million emergency radio system. The Chronicle reports ...

Trial Starts in South Carolina Pollution Lawsuit Against AVX

A trial for the second of three South Carolina water pollution lawsuits against electronics manufacturer AVX Corp. began in Horry County. ...
South Central

Texas To Open Fastest U.S. Highway With 85 MPH Limit

Texas will soon open a stretch of highway with the highest speed limit in the country, giving eager drivers a chance to rip through a trip ...

Arkansas Contractor Says He Demolished the Wrong House

An Arkansas contractor hired by the City of Little Rock to demolish a condemned residence acknowledges he mistakenly tore down the wrong ...

Family, Truck Driver Die in Storms in Northeastern Oklahoma

Fierce thunderstorms with strong winds tore through Oklahoma, killing a truck driver and a family whose mobile home was flipped into a ...

Oklahoma Lawmaker Mulls Mandatory Boater Safety Class

An Oklahoma lawmaker says he is considering introducing a bill requiring new boaters to undergo mandatory training before they are allowed ...
West

California Metrolink Victims Claim Inadequate Compensation

As the anniversary of a deadly Metrolink crash approaches, many survivors say a federal liability cap has left them inadequately ...

Extra DUI Patrols Nab 1,600 Washington Drivers

Police across Washington state arrested more than 1,600 people during a recent drunken-driving enforcement campaign. The Daily News of ...

Landing Gear Door Falls on Washington Neighborhood

The Federal Aviation Administration confirms that a piece of metal that fell to the ground in a Kent, Wash., neighborhood was part of a ...

Risk of Lawsuits Preventing Abandoned Mine Cleanup

Colorado mining authorities have dug through a mountainside and reopened the dark granite shaft of an abandoned mine that turned deadly - ...
International

Reinsurance Industry Exhibits Stability According to Report

In the past 12 years, only eight reinsurers have been declared insolvent despite paying claims of more than $150 billion from events ...

Cowing Joins GAB Robins UK as Head of Major and Complex Loss

GAB Robins have today announced the appointment of Maggie Cowing to the newly created position of Head of Major and Complex loss. Maggie ...

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