Samsung Electronics Co. halted production of its Note 7 smartphones after customers reported problems with new devices, the latest blow in a six-week crisis over exploding phone batteries. Samsung temporarily suspended production of its most expensive phone, a person with …
A building where six people died in one of the deadliest fires in Maine in decades was unsafely operated as an illegal rooming house, a prosecutor said in a closing statement in the trial of the building’s landlord. Closing arguments …
Insurance industry classroom-to-career education program, InVEST, has added Charles Hilson to its national board as an agent member. Hilson is president of the Talent Pipeline Division of Risk Management Solutions of America Inc. (RMSOA) in Chicago. Hilson joined the RMSOA …
Contrary to the trend in most of the nation, home foreclosure rates in Oklahoma have risen over the past two years, and some researchers say increased earthquake activity in the state may be a factor. California-based housing data provider, ATTOM …
A contractor didn’t obtain a key safety permit before welding caused plastic pipe and a construction tarp to burn on the Liberty Bridge last month, resulting in a 24-day shutdown of a primary artery into downtown Pittsburgh, the city’s fire …
New regulations governing the extraction of natural gas through fracking went into effect on Saturday in Pennsylvania, the first overhaul since the industry took off in the state more than 10 years ago. The new rules allow the state’s department …
China will encourage more of its companies to invest in Portugal in areas such as finance, insurance, health care and infrastructure, President Xi Jinping has told the visiting Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa. Both countries need to deepen cooperation in …
Markel International, the London-based specialist insurer, has appointed Chris O’Shea as head of reinsurance claims. O’Shea will oversee a portfolio of claims including those from the reinsurance teams based in London, Singapore and Latin America, as well as a portfolio …
Online insurance seller Esurance, which offered fake Election Insurance in an April Fools’ Day prank that it says created a “furor of demand” from Americans this election year, has created a sweepstakes for people who want to “explore their future …
Gage County, Nebraska, is appealing a $28.1 million civil judgment it faces in a lawsuit filed by six people who were wrongly convicted of the 1985 rape and homicide of a Beatrice woman. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the …
