Monday 14 October 2013

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October 14, 2013

Top 10 for the Past Week

1.Toyota Acceleration Defect Caused Deaths and Injury, Lawyer Says
Oct 9, 2013 -- A defect in a Toyota Motor Corp. Camry caused the vehicle to suddenly accelerate, leading to an accident that left one woman dead and another injured, a lawyer for the women told a jury at the start of trial. The 2005 Camry driven by Jean Bookout, ...
2.State by State Look at Driving Rules for Older Drivers
Sep 19, 2012 -- A 50-state look at the varying rules across the nation governing drivers' licenses for older adults. ALABAMA: Licenses are renewed every four years for all drivers, with no additional requirements for older drivers. A legislative committee ...
3.Study of April 27 2011 Tornadoes Affirms Theories About Causes
Oct 4, 2013 -- The atmosphere in the southeastern U.S. was primed for disaster in late April 2011. Conditions were almost perfect for a massive outbreak of tornado spawning storm cells. Over a four-day period — April 25 through April 28 — at least 356 ...
4.Pennsylvania Girl at Center of Target Trunk Suit Died
Oct 8, 2013 -- A suburban Pittsburgh girl, whose parents sued Target after a wicker storage trunk lid fell on her neck and left her disabled, has died. Martin Lazzaro, a family friend an attorney for Eric and Laura Surman, tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review their ...
5.California Couple Convicted of Murdering Woman's Ex-Husband for Insurance
Aug 10, 2004 -- A San Fernando, California jury, after six days of deliberation, convicted a Chatsworth couple of murdering the woman's former husband - a Los Angeles Unified School District police officer - for his insurance money, the District Attorney's office ...
6.Top 10 Market Conduct Complaints by Regulators Against P/C Insurers
Oct 9, 2013 -- Failure to handle claims within specified time frames and using unapproved forms and rates are the top two criticisms of property/casualty insurers by market conduct regulators, according to a new report. Waltham, Mass.-based Wolters Kluwer ...
7.Robot Surgery Damaging Patients Rises With Misleading Marketing
Oct 8, 2013 -- Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver announced last year that Warren Kortz, a general surgeon on the medical staff, was the first in the Rocky Mountain region to use a technique known as robotic surgery to remove gall bladders through one incision in ...
8.Tesla Fire Shows Electrics Face Safety Challenges
Oct 7, 2013 -- 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 safety concerns for electric-vehicle owners. It also caused rare jitters among investors, who of late have viewed ...
9.Wife: Biker Husband is Victim in New York City Altercation
Oct 3, 2013 -- Shaky camera footage depicts the gory scene: A driver who police say was frightened when a group of motorcyclists swarmed his Range Rover plowed through them, striking a rider in a purple T-shirt and black helmet. The biker, Edwin Mieses Jr., ...
10.Deer-Vehicle Collisions Decline: State Farm
Oct 1, 2013 -- The odds that an individual driver in the United States will crash into a deer during the next year have declined by 4.3 percent.  Using its claims data and state licensed driver counts from the Federal Highway Administration, State Farm, the ...

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