First they found his dark blue teddy bear. Then frantic relatives searching for toddler Skyular Logsdon spotted his red T-shirt and pants, torn, rain-soaked and wrapped around a telephone pole. The little boy hasn’t been seen since Sunday night when …
The tornado that raked Joplin, Missouri, on Sunday was the deadliest single twister in the United States since 1953, putting 2011 on pace for a possible record year for tornado fatalities, U.S. weather experts said Monday. Here are facts and …
The Texas Senate unanimously approved its version of a bill to revamp the state’s windstorm fund that insures coastal properties against hurricane damage. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association reform measure, House Bill 272, attempts to address the issue of “slab …
Massachusetts-based Provider Insurance agency has named Patrick Darcey and Jamie Moran as shareholders. Darcey is a senior sales executive for Provider’s commercial lines department. He joined the firm in October 1999 and has developed an expertise in construction, janitorial and …
Florida began its sometimes annual hurricane exercise Monday after skipping the practice storm last year because officials were busy with a real emergency — the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The hurricane taking aim at Florida is fictional, but it’s …
For the first time in four years, South Carolina residents living along the state’s coastline are going to have to pay more for insurance. The South Carolina Department of Insurance has approved a statewide average 9.8 percent rate increase for …
The New York Senate has confirmed Benjamin M. Lawsky as superintendent of the Department of Financial Services (DFS), the combined agency overseeing insurance, financial services and related industries in the Empire State. Lawsky, who was chief of staff for Gov. …
Hotels could arm employees with panic buttons but are unlikely to put security cameras in hotel rooms following the alleged sexual assault of a maid by former IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, industry executives said Tuesday. Hotels usually have procedures …
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam is praising lawmakers for giving final approval to a plan to cap non-economic and economic damages stemming from lawsuits. The Tennessee General Assembly approved HB 2008 that places a cap of $750,000 on non-economic damages such …
China asked Foxconn Technology Group and other Taiwanese firms to pay more attention to safety, after a deadly blast at a Chinese factory making iPads for Apple. Production in parts of the plant in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu …
