Wednesday 12 September 2012

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September 12, 2012
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National

When to Allocate Defense Costs in Covered and Non-Covered Claims

It is commonplace for an insured to incur defense costs with respect to defending against covered and non-covered claims. This may happen, ...

NASA, Illinois Biologists Study Tree Strength

Biologists in the Chicago area are teaming up with rocket scientists to study trees - or, more specifically, how trees stand and fall. The ...

NFL Awarding $1.5M in Medical Grants

NFL Charities is awarding more than $1.5 million in grants for sports-related medical research at 15 organizations, with nearly two-thirds ...
East

Insurer Ordered to Pay Over Sticky Pennsylvania Turnpike Spill

A federal judge says a trucking company's insurer must cover some of the claims associated with the spill of a sticky goo over a 40-mile ...

Man Falls From Atlantic City Casino Escalator

A man is hospitalized after falling 40 feet from an escalator at Atlantic City's newest casino in New Jersey. The man was going up the ...

Report: Simulated Stall Before Fatal New Jersey Crash

A simulated engine failure may have played a role in a small New Jersey plane crash that killed one person last month. The National ...

Pennsylvania Doc to Repay $700K for Overprescribing Drugs

A Pittsburgh-area physician has agreed to repay two insurance companies $700,000 for covering powerful narcotic painkillers that he pleaded ...

Maryland Man Held in Aruba Sued by Insurer

An American Express subsidiary is suing a Maryland man who was jailed for months in Aruba in the suspected death of his traveling ...
Midwest

Expert Calls Indiana Stage Collapse Compensation Fair

The architect of compensation for victims of last year's deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse says he believes the state was ...

Wisconsin Chemistry Teacher Burned Doing Experiment

A Wisconsin chemistry teacher is home recovering after burning her hand when a science experiment went awry at Stoughton High School. ...

Northern Indiana Sheriff Aims to Reduce Buggy Crashes

The Elkhart County Sheriff's Department is teaming with an Amish group known as the Northern Indiana Safety Association to try to educate ...

Pedestrian Deaths On the Rise in Minnesota

Minnesota safety officials say the number of pedestrian deaths has risen sharply this year. Twenty-three pedestrians have died in Minnesota ...
Southeast

Private Insurers in Line to Take 150,000 Policies from Florida's Citizens

Four Florida-based property insurers have been given the green light to remove up to 150,000 policies from the state-backed Citizens ...

Tests Confirm Link Between BP Oil, Post-Isaac Tar

Scientific testing has confirmed a link between oil from the massive BP spill and tar found on Alabama beaches after Hurricane Isaac. ...

West Virginia PSC Conducting Brake Inspection Blitz

West Virginia regulators are inspecting commercial vehicle brakes at interstate weight stations this week as part of an effort to raise ...

Tennessee Marina Fire Loss Exceeds $1M

An early-morning fire destroyed much of a Norris Lake, Tenn., marina and burned nearly 60 boats. Campbell County Rural Fire Service Chief ...
South Central

Anti-Blowout Technology in New Louisiana University Lab

A new laboratory at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, La., will give students hands-on experience with the kind of equipment used to ...

Arkansas Agencies Installing Smart 911 for Responders

Arkansas public safety agencies are installing a new system that enables dispatchers to better locate people in emergencies and work with ...

University of Louisiana Gets Contract for Insurance Research

The University of Louisiana-Monroe College of Business has been awarded a research contract from the Louisiana Department of Insurance to ...
West

Submerged Forest Suggests Massive Sierra Drought

Scientists say a forest submerged on the bottom of a Sierra Nevada lake holds evidence of a massive drought hundreds of years ago. As ...

4 Faulty Oregon Highway Bridges Being Demolished

Bridge supports were demolished Monday near Eddyville, Ore., in the latest development in the over-budget, behind-schedule project to ...

2 Boys Injured After Falling From SUV on Utah Highway

Two young boys are injured after falling out of an SUV their mother was driving on Utah's Mirror Lake Highway. Utah Highway Patrol ...

20 Years Since Hurricane Iniki Struck Hawaii Islands

It's been 20 years since Hurricane Iniki left no part of Kauai untouched, destroying thousands of homes and killing six people. Tuesday ...
International

Shoe Factory Fire in Pakistan Kills 21 People

A fire that broke out in a factory in eastern Pakistan on Tuesday after sparks from a generator hit chemicals used to make shoes killed 21 ...

Thousands Protest in Japan Against Osprey Aircraft

Tens of thousands of people rallied Sunday against U.S. plans to deploy Osprey hybrid aircraft on a southern Japanese island amid renewed ...

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