Friday 20 September 2013

Daily Headlines: Friday, September 20, 2013

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September 20, 2013
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National

Fall Injuries Follow Motor Vehicle Accidents in Number of ER Visits at Vanderbilt University

One of the top reasons for trauma admission at Vanderbilt University Medical Center may come as a surprise: falls. Second only to motor ...

Goodell Sees Progress in NFL Player Safety

Roger Goodell believes the NFL's new player safety rules are working. Goodell participated in a series of meetings on player health and ...

Industry Sounds Alarm on Piracy

The music and movie industries are sounding the alarm again on online piracy, saying illegal downloads are on the rise and search engines ...

Conning: Looming Threats to Medical Professional Liability Insurer Performance

Medical professional liability insurers have been performing well for the past several years, but the industry's profitability will likely ...
East

New York City Woman Sues EMT Over Tweet

A woman has filed a lawsuit against a New York City EMT who tweeted a photo of her with a caption that said "Wide Load." Teena Gamzon, who ...

Connecticut Lawmaker Calls for More Privacy for Victims

A member of a Connecticut crime records task force is urging the group to consider how victims and their families are traumatized by crime ...

Sandy Continues to Damage Jersey Shore With Fire

Superstorm Sandy still isn't done with the Jersey shore - investigators are blaming the storm for damaging electrical wiring that touched ...

New Jersey High Court Upholds Reliability of Alcotest

New Jersey's Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the breath test used in drunken driving cases. Wednesday's order by the court ...

GEICO to Host Job Fair for Auto Damage Adjusters in Maryland

GEICO is hosting a job fair in Clarksville, Md., for auto damage adjusters. The job fair will be held on Tuesday, September 24 between 9 ...
Midwest

Another Wisconsin Community Bans Bartenders From Serving While Drunk

Neenah has become the latest Wisconsin community where bartenders can be cited if they're legally intoxicated when they serve customers. ...

Lightning Blamed for Some Indiana Building Fires

Lightning is the suspected cause of some building fires that broke out as a wave of thunderstorms moved across much of northern and central ...

Only 3 of 5 Car Seats Used Correctly in Illinois

About 90 percent of child passengers on Illinois roads are riding in car seats, but only three out of five of those car seats are being ...
Southeast

Florida Wildlife Commission Urges Safety While Tubing

Tubing can be a dangerous water sport that leads to accidents on the water, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said ...

Former Mississippi Code Enforcement Officer Sentenced for Insurance Fraud

A former code enforcement officer in Natchez, Miss., has been sentenced to two years' probation for insurance fraud. The Natchez Democrat ...

Greyhound Wants Dismissal of Mississippi Accident Suit

A federal judge has scheduled a hearing next week on Greyhound Bus Lines Inc.'s motion to throw out a lawsuit related to a 2008 accident in ...
South Central

Louisiana Insurance Agent Arrested

 A Slidell insurance agent was served by Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Division investigators with a summary suspension and ...

Texas Woman Gets Life in Prison for 6th DWI

A 44-year-old Central Texas woman has been sentenced to life in prison for her sixth driving while intoxicated conviction. A Hays County ...

Texas Marks Centennial Anniversary of Workers' Compensation Laws

September 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the effective date of the first workers' compensation laws passed by the 33rd Texas ...
West

2 Insurers Sue U.S. Army for Utah Wildfire

Two insurers are suing the U.S. Army for a wildfire sparked by live fire at Camp Williams that torched three houses in the Salt Lake City ...

Gun Show Canceled Due to Insurance Requirements

Members of a southwestern Idaho gun club may have to end a decades-long tradition of gun shows because Ada County raised its insurance ...

Engineers Pay $100,000 for Utah Mine Collapse

An engineering firm held partly responsible for a Utah mine collapse that killed nine people in 2007 will pay a $100,000 penalty for a ...

South Dakota Couple Gets $8M Award in Wyoming Wreck

A federal jury has awarded a South Dakota couple more than $8 million for losses they suffered in a 2009 traffic accident in Sweetwater ...
International

China, Hong Kong, Taiwan Brace as Year's Strongest Storm Looms

East Asian meteorological authorities issued warnings as tropical cyclone Usagi, the world's strongest storm this year, barreled toward the ...

Warming Lull Haunts Authors of Key Climate Report

Scientists working on a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in ...

Hurricane Manuel Returns to Soak Northwestern Mexico: AIR Worldwide

According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, after rapidly dissipating on Monday night and being downgraded to a remnant tropical ...

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