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September 4, 2012

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Today's Headlines National Insurers Begin to Process Isaac Claims Insurance claims from Hurricane Isaac have begun to trickle in, with one estimate saying losses to insurers could total $1.2 billion. AIR ... U.S. Supreme Court to Review Class-Action Case The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider the constitutionality of a legal tactic that can make it harder for companies to defend ... More Than 600,000 Mr. Coffee Brewers Recalled More than 600,000 Mr. Coffee single cup brewers are being recalled because of a potential burn hazard. The units are imported by Jarden ... Motorcycle Helmets Recalled, May Not Protect Rider T-Motorsports is recalling an unknown number of motorcycle helmets because the chin straps can fail and they might not protect a rider's ... Ford Sued Over F-150 Fuel Injection System Ford Motor Co has been sued for allegedly infringing a patent that covers a fuel-injection system it uses in its top-selling F-150 truck. ... More National News East OSHA Investigates New York Carnival Worker Death Workplace safety officials are investigating the weekend death of a Long Island, N.Y., carnival worker who was struck on the head by a ... Scrap Collectors Finding More Benefit Among Debris Mike Hixenbaugh's truck was filled with an oil tank, some tin rods, an old bathtub and other scrap refuse from the site of a recently ... GEICO Sponsors Rest Area ‘Safe Phone Zones' in Virginia Insurance giant GEICO is going to become a lot more familiar to travelers who visit Virginia's 43 Interstate rest stops, the Virginia ... More East News Midwest Texas Pilot Killed in Iowa Air Show Crash Glenn Smith left a lucrative job at a Dallas-area technology firm for an early retirement of restoring Soviet fighter jets and flying to ... 2 Indiana Women Injured in Crash Sue Dairy Over Smoke Two Indiana women injured in a highway crash are suing a dairy farm, accusing its owners of negligence in a hay fire that shrouded the ... 1 Hurt as Beams Fall in Minnesota Building Zone Building inspectors in Eden Prairie, Minn., are trying to determine what caused steel beams to come crashing down at the construction site ... More Midwest News Southeast New Trial Order in Asbestos Case Upheld The Mississippi Supreme Court has let stand an order for a new trial in a workplace asbestos exposure case in which a Jones County man was ... Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Phone Threats to Insurer A 49-year-old Florida man pleaded guilty Friday to making hundreds of threatening calls to employees at the Travelers Insurance Company. ... Woman Charged in North Carolina Apartment Arson A Guilford County, N.C., woman has been charged with setting a fire that damaged 18 apartments in Durham and displaced dozens of people ... Authorities See Suspect in 10 North Carolina Fires Police in Winston-Salem, N.C., say they are looking for an arsonist who set 10 small fires downtown this summer. The Winston-Salem Journal ... More Southeast News South Central Crosstex Moving Pipeline Near Huge Louisiana Sinkhole Crosstex Energy LP of Dallas will reroute its 36-inch natural gas pipeline away from a sinkhole in south Louisiana. The project will cost ... Disaster Center to Open in Oklahoma for Fire Aid Help A mobile disaster recovery center is slated to open near Drumright, Okla., this week to help residents apply for aid after a devastating ... Lawsuit Settled Over Ex-Coach at Oklahoma University The University of Central Oklahoma has settled a civil lawsuit with 12 former students and employees who accused the school's former debate ... More South Central News West Arizona Officers Make Nearly 400 DUI Arrests Arizona law enforcement officers say they arrested nearly 400 people statewide on suspicion of driving while intoxicated during the first ... Company, Insurers Sues Oregon Utility Over Power Outage Four years after closing its Eugene, Ore., plant, Hynix Semiconductor has filed a $1.1 million lawsuit against the Eugene Water & ... Repeat Offender Gets Up to 10 Years for Insurance Fraud A repeat offender from Caldwell, Idaho, received up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of insurance fraud. Martha ... More West News International Twin Typhoons Raise Fears in Disaster-Prone North Korea Twin typhoons renewed fears of a humanitarian crisis in North Korea, where poor drainage, widespread deforestation and crumbling ... More International News Connect with Claims Journal

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