Wednesday 28 November 2012

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November 28, 2012
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National

More Businesses Seek Government Flood Insurance After Sandy: Marsh

More businesses are expressing interest in purchasing flood insurance coverage from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in the wake ...

Researchers Help Address Software Weaknesses

Millions and millions of lines of computer software code are written around the world every day, advancing technology but also creating an ...

White House Expected to Seek Billions in Sandy Disaster Aid

The White House is expected in the coming days to send Congress a multi-billion dollar request to fund recovery from Superstorm Sandy, ...

Lynch Named Kemper Property & Casualty Group Executive; Schulte Resigns

Kemper Corporation named Denise I. Lynch property & casualty group executive for Kemper Corporation, effective December 1, 2012. She will ...
East

Fine Lowered Against New Hampshire Brewery in Death

A federal agency has agreed to lower fines against a New Hampshire brewery where an employee was killed in a keg explosion. Ben Harris of ...

New York City Borough Copes With Sinkholes

Residents in Far Rockaway, Queens, are now coping with sinkholes in areas that seemed stable before Superstorm Sandy. The city's Department ...

New York Gets $27M to Hire Sandy Cleanup Workers

More than 5,000 New Yorkers will be hired for temporary government jobs cleaning up after Superstorm Sandy, officials said Sunday. About ...

FEMA Approves More Than $664M for New York Sandy Victims

More than $664 million in federal aid has been approved for New York's victims of Superstorm Sandy by the Federal Emergency Management ...

Connecticut Archdiocese Sues Insurer Over Misconduct Payments

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford says its insurer has failed to cover more than $1 million the archdiocese paid out in recent ...
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Midwest

Reports Show No South Dakota Holiday Traffic Fatalities

State officials say preliminary reports indicate this year's Thanksgiving holiday was the first in a decade without a traffic fatality on ...

Defendants Say North Dakota Bar Fight Suit Should be Dismissed

The defendants in a lawsuit over a North Dakota bar fight say there's no evidence to back up the complaint and it should be thrown out of ...

Rate of Iowa Roadway Deer Kills Declines

The rate of Iowa roadway deer kills has declined to figures not seen since the 1980s, and hunters are getting much of the credit. The Iowa ...

Cause Uncertain for Southwest Indiana Shopping Center Fire

A fire official says arson isn't suspected in a weekend blaze that destroyed a shopping center in southwestern Indiana that included nine ...
New class from Academy of Insurance: Proper use of Premium Financing
Southeast

OSHA Cites Mississippi Company Following Worker Deaths

Mississippi Phosphates Corp. has been cited by the government for 40 safety and health violations following the deaths of two workers in ...

Hurricane Katrina Fraud Case Set for Trial in February

A Mississippi man is scheduled for trial Feb. 4 on Hurricane Katrina fraud charges. Anthony L. Bryan is charged with fraudulently obtaining ...

Officials Checking Kentucky Dam After Earthquake

Officials in eastern Kentucky are conducting tests on a dam to see if a recent 4.3 magnitude earthquake centered near Blackey enlarged the ...
South Central

BP: Many Settlement Opt-Out Requests Weren't Valid

Only about half the businesses and individuals who asked to be excluded from a proposed settlement over BP's 2010 oil spill submitted valid ...

Suspect Allegedly Steals, Crashes Texas Ambulance

Police say a shoplifting suspect in Central Texas has been caught after allegedly stealing an ambulance and crashing at a fast-food ...

Audit: Restaurant Inspections Don't Ensure Safety

A new audit says Louisiana's Office of Public Health has fallen short in its inspections of restaurants and other retail establishments ...
West

4 Convicted in California for $154M Medical Insurance Fraud

Orange County, Calif., prosecutors say four people have been convicted of crimes relating to a $154 million medical fraud scheme in which ...

San Francisco Seeking $1.2M for Costs in Fan Beating

San Francisco officials are seeking $1.2 million from the Los Angeles Dodgers to cover the unpaid medical costs for Bryan Stow, a San ...

Man Damages Maserati, Mercedes at Utah Dealership

A car dealership in Bountiful, Utah, is out thousands of dollars after they say a man kicked a Maserati, a Mercedes Benz and other high-end ...

Idaho Officials Fret Over Deer Collision Rise

Idaho's wildlife managers are starting to worry about the growing number of collisions involving motorists and deer, elk and moose. Studies ...
International

Hundreds of Homes Inundated as Floods Sweep Through the UK: AIR

According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, heavy rainfall began lashing the British Isles on Thursday, November 22, prompting ...

Fire at German Workshop for Disabled Kills 14

Fourteen people were killed and eight injured Monday when a fire broke out at a workshop for disabled people in Germany's Black Forest ...

Superstorm Sandy to Cost Reinsurer Swiss Re $900M

Reinsurance company Swiss Re estimates that claims stemming from the destruction caused by Superstorm Sandy will cost the company about ...

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