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February 19, 2013

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Today's Headlines National Statistics on Insurers Handling Sandy Flood Claims The 15 insurers participatin in the National Flood Insurance Program that are handling at least 1,000 claims related to Sandy, the progress ... Passengers of Stranded Ship Have Little Cause to Sue After four days on a crippled cruise ship with overflowing toilets, stifling heat and hours-long waits for food, at least one passenger ... Nationwide's Live Bedroom Burn Shows Dangers of Alternative Heating Fires As the bone-chilling cold of winter grips the nation, many Americans take to alternative heating sources to keep their homes warmer and ... Atlantic Marine Associates Adds New Surveying and Consultancy Arm Atlantic Marine Associates Inc. (AMA), a member of the Eagle Ocean Group, which includes Shipowners Claims Bureau Inc., managers of the ... Chrysler Recalls 4,278 Viper Sports Cars on Airbag Issue Chrysler Group LLC said on Friday it is recalling 4,278 Dodge Viper sports cars globally to fix a part that could cause the airbags to ... More National News East Connecticut Bills Address Bedbug Infestations Connecticut lawmakers are considering legislation that spells out the responsibilities of landlords and tenants when it comes to bedbug ... 163K Nonfatal Workplace Injuries, Illnesses Reported by N.Y. Private Employers in 2011 Almost 163,000 nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses were reported among New York private industry employers in 2011, according to data ... Upstate New York Woman Sentenced for Crash Fraud Scheme Authorities announced this week that a Utica, N.Y., woman has been sentenced for her role in an insurance and health care fraud scheme. The ... Many Flood Insurance Claims Languish After Sandy Up and down the Atlantic coast, people are telling horror stories about how long it has taken to get an insurance check for flood damage ... More East News Midwest Restoring a Tornado-Damaged High School in Indiana The Facts Who: Service On Site (SOS) Contents, a division of Enservio What: $2 million damage to Henryville Junior-Senior High School ... Ex-Insurance Adjuster Pleads Guilty A former insurance claims adjuster faces sentencing in May after admitting to filing false insurance claims to divert more than $400,000 to ... Missouri City's Law Encourages Thieves to Steal Old Cars St. Louis, Mo., police say a revised law is encouraging thieves to steal older cars and sell them for scrap, causing a big rise in auto ... Illinois Provides Disaster-Planning Money The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity is sending $62 million to 55 communities around the state for use on disaster ... Illinois Woman Rescued After Fall into Sewer Vault A woman had to be rescued from an underground sanitary sewer vault in northern Illinois after falling about 8 feet through an unsecured lid ... Safety Campaign Aimed at North Dakota Oil Patch Operators Officials are pushing a safety campaign in western North Dakota's oil patch, where 12 people died in oil and gas operations last year. The ... More Midwest News Southeast Florida' Division of Workers' Comp Conducts Construction Site Statewide Sweep Florida investigators contacted more than 770 employers and issued 70 citations to construction companies and other businesses that put ... Kentucky Shop That Made Specialty License Plates Burns Fire has destroyed a shop near Paris where specialty Kentucky auto license plates were manufactured. According to the Lexington ... 2 More Mississippi Counties Declared Disaster Areas Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has declared two more Mississippi counties as disaster areas due ... More Southeast News South Central Safety Violations Found in Texas Oilfield Deaths Federal workplace safety investigations show that at least 11 deaths in Texas' oilfields could have been prevented if companies followed ... New Windstorm Rules Drive Texas Engineers Away Hundreds of engineers have dropped out of a windstorm certification program following legislative changes to become certified by the Texas ... Oklahoma Governor: Audit of Insurance Department Not Needed Oklahoma's governor won't request a performance audit of the agency that regulates insurance because the department had one late last year. ... Civil Lawsuits Filed Over Oklahoma Wildfire More than 60 civil lawsuits have been filed against an Oklahoma pipeline company over damages from a summer wildfire at Glencoe. The latest ... More South Central News West Oregon Doctors, Lawyers Support Medical Errors Bill Usually staunch adversaries, doctors and trial lawyers have both gotten behind an Oregon bill creating a new mediation process for patients ... Washington Roofing Contractor Sentenced to 60 days for Workers' Comp Fraud A Lake Stevens, Wash., man was sentenced to 60 days in jail converted to electronic home monitoring after a state investigation showed he ... Colorado Tax Holiday on Disaster Supplies Rejected Colorado Democrats rejected a Republican proposal for a sales-tax holiday on disaster preparedness items like first aid kits, flashlights ... New Mexico House Panel OKs Tax Increase for Roads New Mexico's tax on car and truck purchases would increase to finance $300 million in highway improvements under legislation approved by a ... Caliber Collision Centers Adds 21st Location in Los Angeles Region Caliber Collision Centers announced the opening of its newest location in Long Beach, California. "Today's opening of our new Long Beach ... More West News International 2 Magnitude 5 Quakes Shake Southwestern Greece Seismologists say two earthquakes have struck southwestern Greece, both with preliminary magnitudes 5 but with different epicenters. No ... Chile Arrests Welder for Massive Wildfire Chilean police have arrested a man they say is responsible for the worst forest fire in decades in the hills above the port of Valparaiso. ... Johnson & Johnson Recalls More Metal Hip Implants Johnson & Johnson, the subject of thousands of lawsuits stemming from the 2010 recall of its ASR all-metal hip implants, last month ... Meteor Blast Impacts Russia: AIR Worldwide According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, on Friday, February 15, a meteor exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk (population: 1 ... Magnitude 6.7 Siberian Quake Causes No Damage Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry says that a magnitude 6.7 earthquake has hit a sparsely populated area in Eastern Siberia. There ... More International News Connect with Claims Journal Claims Journal TV Extreme Weather Impacting Coastal Areas and the Insurance Industry Steven Apfelbaum, an ecologist and founder of environmental consulting firm Applied Ecological... Watch Now How to Become a Storm Spotter In this interview with Claims Journal, Ken Waters, Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the... Watch Now Watch more videos at InsuranceJournal.tv

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