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October 7, 2013

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Today's Headlines National BP Oil Well Dumped 4.2 Million Barrels Into Gulf BP Plc's doomed Macondo well dumped 4.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, a lawyer for the U.S. told a judge who is ... Tesla Fire Shows Electrics Face Safety Challenges When debris on a Seattle-area freeway pierced the battery of a $70,000-plus Tesla Model S and touched off a raging fire, it raised new ... GM Recalls 1,658 Small Sonic Cars for Fuel Tank Issue General Motors Co is recalling 1,658 Chevrolet Sonic cars, as potentially faulty strap welds could cause the fuel tank to separate from the ... P/C Industry Valuations Stable: Conning Property/casualty insurance stocks have now risen beyond the sub-book-value multiples that existed for many companies over the preceding ... Adobe Says Attack Exposed Customer Financial Info Adobe Systems Inc. said a cyber attack on its systems has exposed credit card information of 2.9 million customers. The maker of Photoshop ... More National News East New Jersey City Considers Fire-Resistant Boardwalk A New Jersey city is considering replacing a section of boardwalk damaged by Superstorm Sandy with material that's more resistant to fire. ... New Jersey Governor Blames Civil Servant for Sandy Train Damage New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says a low-level manager - not the state's mass transit chief - was to blame for failing to move trains to ... Medical Malpractice Case Ends in Hung Jury in Virginia A $1 million malpractice civil lawsuit against a prominent Culpeper, Va., doctor has resulted in a hung jury. Jurors told the Culpeper ... Red Cross Helping Sandy Victims Still in New York Hotels The Red Cross has stepped in to help hundreds of Superstorm Sandy evacuees who were thrown into housing limbo Friday after New York City ... More East News Midwest Police: Bag on Missouri Clinic Roof Failed Try at Arson Investigators say they're looking into a failed arson attempt at a southwest Missouri Planned Parenthood clinic after a bag containing ... Parents File Civil Suit Against Iowa Boat Operators The parents of an Iowa man killed in a Mississippi River boating crash filed the first of what could be several civil lawsuits against the ... Woman Charged in Fake Auto Insurance Policy Scheme A 40-year-old woman has been arrested in the sale of more than 300 bogus auto insurance policies to Detroit-area drivers. The Wayne County ... Fire Damage Put in Millions at Kansas Packing Plant The damage from last week's fire at a south-central Kansas packing plant is estimated in the millions of dollars. Doug Mackay, director of ... More Midwest News Southeast Palm Beach Jury Awards $10M for Faulty Tire A Palm Beach County jury has ordered a tire maker to pay almost $10 million to a Florida woman critically injured in a 2009 accident. The ... Worker Dies of Head Injury at West Virginia Coal Mine An unidentified worker died of a head injury Friday at CONSOL Energy's McElroy mine in Marshall County, and the West Virginia Office of ... Mississippi Judge Reprimanded and Fined for Conflict in Asbestos Case The Mississippi Supreme Court has ordered a public reprimand and fine for a judge who was accused of failing to disclose a potential ... CatManDo Announces New Website CatManDo, Inc. a full service independent property insurance claims adjusting and TPA firm servicing the Southeast, announced the redesign ... SDII Global Appoints David Howard CEO Tampa, Fla.-based SDII Global Corporation, a 24-year old forensic engineering firm servicing the Southeastern and Northeastern United ... More Southeast News South Central Louisiana Parishes Want to Be Part of Levee Plan Louisiana residents and parish officials are lobbying the Army Corps of Engineers to include Ascension and St. James parishes in a massive ... Texas DPS Ends Valley Roadblocks A newspaper analysis shows that two Texas border counties singled out for traffic checkpoints have lower crash rates than other big areas ... Texas Researcher Says Dry Air Helping Fuel Slow Hurricane Season A Texas A&M storm expert says dry air is helping fuel a ho-um hurricane season, at least so far. Robert Korty, an associate professor in ... Chamber to Intervene in Oklahoma Workers' Comp Case The State Chamber of Oklahoma has filed a motion to intervene in a constitutional challenge against Oklahoma's new workers' compensation ... More South Central News West California Court of Appeals Decision Provides Reasoning Behind Punitive Damages Calculations In a case where the punitive damages awarded to a health insurance claimant amounted to more than $19 million in 2011, a California Court ... Toyota Rebuffed by U.S. Supreme Court on Prius Brake Lawsuits The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a Toyota Motor Corp. appeal that sought to force arbitration of California lawsuits over the brakes in ... Erin Brockovich Resolves Nevada Drunken Boating Case Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has pleaded no contest to operating a boat while intoxicated following her arrest at Lake Mead. She ... Legislative Panel to Address Colorado Flooding Colorado lawmakers plan to address the state's flood recovery efforts and discuss whether there's a need for legislation in the disaster's ... More West News International Indian Woman Killed in Thai Parasailing Accident An Indian tourist celebrating her wedding anniversary was killed in a parasailing accident off Thailand's coast, police said Thursday. ... China Evacuates 417,000 People Ahead of Typhoon Hundreds of thousands of people in southeast China were evacuated and fishing vessels called back to shore on Sunday because of an ... Canadian National Insurance Crime Services Forms to Fight Fraud CANATICS, or Canadian National Insurance Crime Services, is a not-for-profit organization focused on using state-of-the-art analytical ... More International News Connect with Claims Journal Claims Journal TV Cargo Theft Trends In 2012 it's estimated that there was an average of two and a half reported cargo thefts each... Watch Now Investigating Organized Claims Fraud In an interview with Claims Journal, Thomas Mulvey, the national director of special... Watch Now Watch more videos at InsuranceJournal.tv

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