Thursday 20 June 2013

Daily Headlines: Thursday, June 20, 2013

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June 20, 2013
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National

Liability for Marketing Communications

Manufacturers of products and providers of services can be held liable for injury, damage or economic loss suffered by a customer and third ...

SEC to Require Mea Culpas in Some Big Settlements

The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission says the agency will start requiring companies and individuals to admit wrongdoing ...

Federal Fracking Study Won't Be Done Until 2016

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official tells an Ohio fracking conference that a study of the threat to drinking water from the ...

Kolcraft Recalls Strollers Due to Wheel Blowouts

Kolcraft is recalling more than 96,000 Jeep Liberty strollers after at least 18 people were injured by tire blowouts, the Consumer Product ...

Chrysler Agrees to Recall of Jeeps at Risk of Fire

Chrysler says it has resolved its differences with the government and will recall older Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUVs that could be ...
East

Superstorm Sandy Flood Claims Exceed $31M in Rhode Island

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid more than 800 claims totaling more than $31 million to property owners in Rhode Island after ...

Pennsylvania Emergency Responders Hindered by Hoarding

He who dies with the most toys wins ... unless trapped under all those toys during a fire when rescue workers can't get to you. The ...

New York Librarian Back on Job After Storm-Forced Firing

A librarian in a small upstate New York village is back on the job two weeks after she was fired for closing the library 40 minutes early ...

New Jersey Get $53M for Sandy Waterway Debris Costs

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and a shore community will receive more than $53 million in federal reimbursement for ...

New Jersey Woman Sentenced in FEMA Disaster Scam

An Atlantic City, N.J., woman who stole more than $15,000 in benefit money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after a 2010 ...
Midwest

Armed Employees Could Cost Kansas' Schools Insurance

The company that insures most of Kansas' school districts says it won't provide coverage for districts that allow armed employees. EMC ...

Disaster Declaration Issued for Michigan Spring Floods

President Barack Obama has issued a disaster declaration for Michigan to aid the recovery effort from severe spring flooding. Tuesday's ...

Authorities: Iowa Factory Explosion was Accidental

Authorities say they still don't know what caused a small explosion at a northeast Iowa factory that injured three workers. Postville Fire ...

Nebraska Couple on Trial in South Dakota for Arson

Trial has begun for a Nebraska couple accused of burning down a steakhouse they owned in the South Dakota town of Springfield to collect ...
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Southeast

Workers' Compensation Changes Focus of Tennessee Conference

Changes to the state's workers' compensation system will be the focus of the Tennessee Workers' Compensation Educational Conference this ...

West Virginia Mine Safety Lab Creates Disasters to Train

Orange flames lick at the roof of the coal mine, heat building and visibility dropping as smoke begins to fill the underground passageway. ...

Tennessee City Loses Insurance, Shuts Down City Services

The city of Niota, Tenn., is again without insurance and has shut down most city services. According to The Daily Post-Athenian, only a ...
South Central

NTSB: Bad Eyesight Likely Caused Oklahoma Train Crash

An engineer killed in a fiery train collision in the Oklahoma Panhandle last year suffered from serious vision problems for much of his ...

Tornado Insurance Claims Near 71,000 in Oklahoma

Nearly 71,000 insurance claims have been filed since violent tornadoes ripped through central Oklahoma last month, with payments already ...

East Texas Fire Kills More Than 200 Exotic Birds

An apparent electrical fire at an East Texas man's animal sanctuary has killed more than 200 exotic birds. Kilgore Fire Marshal Brandon ...

Waco Investigators Seek Help After Possible Arsons

Investigators in Central Texas have asked for the public's help in solving about two dozen suspicious fires that could be arson. Waco ...
West

Insurers Aren't Required to Tell Insureds That They Filed a Claim Under the Wrong Policy

Most jurisdictions hold that every contract form contains an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing that prohibits either ...

Authorities: Unattended Campfire Caused California Fire

An unattended campfire near a main route into Yosemite National Park has grown into a more than 2-square-mile blaze that officials said ...

Thieves Take 5 Tons of Watermelon from Oregon Stores

Police and Clackamas County sheriff's detectives say two men stole 17 pallets of watermelon - about 5 tons - from grocery stores in ...
International

UK Soldiers' Families Can Sue Over Iraq Deaths

The families of several British soldiers killed or injured in Iraq can sue the government for failing to protect them, the country's ...

Flood Damages UNESCO Heritage Site in Austria

A flash flood unleashed by a major thunderstorm has inundated the Austrian village of Hallstatt, which has been awarded special status by ...

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