Wednesday 10 October 2012

Daily Headlines: Wednesday, October 10, 2012

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October 10, 2012
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National

Safety Regulator Issues Warning About Counterfeit Airbags

The U.S. safety regulator issued a warning on Wednesday to consumers with repaired vehicles that they may have airbags that don't inflate ...

Average Cooking Fire Claim Tops $30,000

Cooking fires far exceed most home-related fires, and they are more expensive to repair. Fires that start on the stove outpace appliance, ...

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East

Federal Investigators Probe New Jersey Bus Accident

Federal investigators are probing the crash of a tour bus from Canada that injured 23 people in New Jersey. Officials with the Federal ...

French Fries Spark Maine Apartment Blaze

Fire investigators say a woman making a late night snack of french fries sparked a fire in a Pittsfield, Maine, apartment building that ...

Study Shows Benefits of Reforms to New York's Workers' Comp System

The workers' compensation reforms enacted in New York in 2007 are beginning to achieve some of their objectives, particularly in bringing ...

Connecticut Family Sues Over Basketball Player's Death

Connecticut relatives of an American basketball player who died after being beaten in a Romanian bar are announcing a wrongful death ...
Midwest

Minnesota High Court Rules Insurer Can Pursue Subrogation for Tenant Caused Property Damage

In a recent decision, the Minnesota high court found that insurers may have a right of recovery in claims involving tenant-caused property ...

Directors Sought for North Dakota Workers' Comp Board

North Dakota's workers' compensation agency is looking for new members for its board of directors. The terms of six of the 11 directors are ...

Woman Charged With Arson, Fraud in Iowa Fire

Authorities say a 51-year-old woman has been charged with setting fire to her own house in Davenport, Iowa. The Quad-City Times says Donna ...

Home Building Drive Starts in Storm Hit Indiana Town

Hundreds of volunteers converged Monday on a southern Indiana town devastated by a March tornado outbreak for a weeklong building blitz to ...
Southeast

Tennessee Regulators Say Insurers Weighing Shift in Roofing Policies

Tennessee regulators observed that in recent months, some property/casualty insurers in the state have filed to expand or shift their ...

Drivers Grumbling After Wreckfest at Talladega

The pack is apparently here to stay and NASCAR drivers don't like it one bit. That includes Dale Earnhardt Jr., who earned seven of his 19 ...

Florida Insurance Fund Could Be Short of Cash Needs

A state-created fund that backs up private insurers in Florida could fall short of the money it needs to pay off hurricane insurance claims ...
South Central

2011 Saw Decline in Rear Seat Passenger Deaths

More people seem to be buckling up in the back seat. The Louisiana Highway Safety Commission says preliminary crash data shows that 34 ...

New Orleans Katrina Victims Take on Hurricane Tour Operators

Some New Orleans residents and city officials are pushing back against tour operators who bus out-of-towners into the city's Lower 9th ...

Truck Stuck in Arkansas Car Wash, Driver Cited for DUI

Forrest City, Ark., police charged a Moro man with drunken driving after he got his truck stuck in a carwash. Officers were summoned to the ...
West

Oregon County to Ditch Tsunami Sirens Jan. 1

When the big one hits the Oregon coast, people won't need sirens, say experts - they'll know by the intense trembling beneath their feet ...

Several Homes on Washington Lake Damaged by Fire

Several homes along Lake Washington in Seattle, Wash., have been damaged by a fast-spreading fire that sent up a thick black column of ...

California Father Daughter Team Must Repay $600K in Workers' Comp Fraud

Jerry Buffington, 69, and Cynthia Russell, 47, have pled guilty in Kern County Superior Court to one count each of workers' compensation ...

Million Dollar Alaska Home Intentionally Burned

An oceanfront home in Juneau, Alaska, worth more than $1 million was intentionally burned to the ground. The Juneau Empire says 63-year-old ...
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International

Widow Charged Over New Zealand Fishing Boat Sinking

A boat captain's widow was charged Tuesday with failing to ensure crew safety on their fishing vessel that sank off New Zealand in March, ...

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