Thursday 8 November 2012

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November 8, 2012
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National

Sandy Might Send More Than 250,000 Cars to Scrap Heap

Superstorm Sandy may consign as many as a quarter of a million new and used cars and trucks to the scrap heap, a loss that could eventually ...

Hyundai, Kia Face $775M Lawsuit Over False Fuel Economy Claims

A U.S. lawsuit has been filed against Hyundai Motor Co and affiliate Kia Motors Corp, seeking $775 million in damages in one of the biggest ...

ABC Raises Nearly $17M for Hurricane Relief

ABC says its national "Day of Giving" raised nearly $17 million for Superstorm Sandy relief. Throughout its programming Monday, the network ...

Risk Retention Groups Grow Despite Underwriting Loss: Demotech

Risk retention groups reported an underwriting loss but a net income gain in the first half of 2012, according to a review of their ...

State Insurance Regulators Move to Protect Consumers After Sandy

Governors of nine states and the mayor of Washington D.C. moved quickly to protect consumers from high insurance deductibles associated ...
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East

Attorney's Advice to Insurers on Reducing Class Action Exposure Post-Sandy

A veteran attorney who spent several years defending insurance companies in lawsuits from Hurricane Katrina is offering advice to insurers ...

Storm Leaves Connecticut Gold Coast Shaken

The floodwaters churned by Superstorm Sandy damaged waterfront homes along Connecticut's southwest coast, and turned the charming center of ...

Sandy Knocks Off Big Chunk of Retail Sales

Superstorm Sandy knocked off nearly $4 billion of retail sales last week in the hard-hit Mid-Atlantic and Northeast region, nearly 20 ...

Massachusetts Pharmacy Workers Ordered to Stop Work

Massachusetts regulators have ordered all pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who worked at the Framingham company at the center of ...

Maryland Warns Homeowners to Hire Licensed Tree Experts

Maryland's Department of Natural Resources is reminding homeowners to make sure they hire licensed tree professionals to trim or remove ...
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Midwest

Indiana Woman Who Claimed School Bus Injury Charged

A northern Indiana woman who claimed she was struck and injured by a school bus has been charged with fraud after surveillance video ...

Police: Indiana Man Defaced Many Buildings

A 19-year-old Nampa, Ind., man who police say caused thousands of dollars in damage over several years by spray painting hundreds of ...

Ohio Woman Who Drove on Sidewalk Must Wear Sign

A woman caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to avoid a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children will have to stand at an ...

Ohio Offers Help for Uninsured Storm Losses

Ohio officials say help may be available for those with uninsured losses from last week's superstorm Sandy. The Ohio Emergency Management ...
Southeast

Workers Injured, Patient Dead in North Carolina Hospital Fire

A state official says preliminary information indicates a spark and fire at a North Carolina hospital that killed a patient and injured ...

2 Mississippi Men Arrested on Charges of Stealing Copper

Authorities say two men have been arrested on charges of stealing thousands of dollars in copper from farm irrigation pivots in Mississippi ...

West Virginia Workshop Offers Advice on Drugs in Workplace

They might have red eyes and constricted pupils. They might be nodding off at their desk, if they show up at all. They might not be as ...
South Central

Louisiana Citizens Considers Rate Increase

Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.'s board is expected to approve increasing its commercial coverage rates by an average of 45.1 ...

Engineer: Stove Brand in Texas Day Care Fire Problematic

The brand of stove at the center of a fire at a Texas home day care that killed four children and injured three others has been known to be ...

Former Insurance Agent Headed to Prison for Defrauding Oklahoma Seniors

Former Oklahoma insurance agent Marshall Virden has been sentenced to two years in prison for defrauding senior citizens in Wagoner County, ...
West

Oregon Student Dies in Accidental Fall

Police in Eugene, Ore., say that a 22-year-old University of Oregon student was fatally injured in an accidental fall from an apartment ...

California Voters Reject Bid to Change Insurance Rate-Setting

For the second time in three years, California voters have rejected a ballot initiative that would have let auto insurers charge drivers ...

Montana City Bans Using Cellphones While Driving

The Missoula City Council has passed a ban on the use of cellphones while driving or riding bicycles three years after first raising the ...
International

Lights Still Out in Cuba's 2nd City After Sandy

Cuba's second city is still struggling to recover from the effects of Hurricane Sandy even as streetlamps in hard-hit lower Manhattan shine ...

Future Global Warming Likely to be on High Side According to Predictions

Climate model projections showing a greater rise in global temperature are likely to prove more accurate than those showing a lesser rise, ...

Oil Rig Workers Evacuated From Floating Hotel

Statoil on Wednesday evacuated 326 oil rig workers from a North Sea platform after the structure began to tilt, the Norwegian oil company ...

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