University of Connecticut officials maintain that a new dormitory with an inadequate sprinkler system is safe for students, but the school will be required to post firefighters there 24 hours a day until the problems are fixed. The announcement marked …
The owners of a Rhode Island nightclub where 100 people were killed in a 2003 fire are scheduled to go to trial Sept. 30 to determine whether they are able to pay tens of thousands of dollars to the families …
Lawyers for Pope Benedict XVI have asked U.S. President George W. Bush to declare the pontiff immune from liability in a lawsuit that accuses him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas, …
The city’s fire department needs several new ladder trucks, each of which cost $600,000, according to the fire chief and the president of the firefighters union. Pittsburgh’s contract with the Fire Fighters Local 1 union requires that the city have …
New York would join a growing list of states to repeal laws allowing insurance carriers to deny payment of medical bills for people injured while driving drunk under a measure sent to Gov. George Pataki. Under current state law, doctors …
A state Republican Party lawsuit seeking nearly $1 million from an insurance company that refused to cover the GOP after Democrats sued over partisan eavesdropping is frivolous, the insurer contends in a court filing. Union Insurance Co. has asked the …
Four Connecticut doctors have filed a lawsuit accusing the nation’s largest health insurer of using anticompetitive practices to force them into a substandard health insurance network. The doctors filed the lawsuit in Bridgeport Superior Court against UnitedHealth Group and Oxford …
Making low-cost changes to busy roadways in cities, such as adding left hand turn signals and extending the length of merger lanes, can reduce the number of crashes, according to a study released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. …
The insurance company for Stonington, Conn. has filed a legal complaint claiming that if school officials lose a bullying lawsuit, then parents of the alleged bullies should pay as well. A lawsuit filed by a Pawcatuck Middle School student claims …
A federal jury last week awarded Vermont’s insurance commissioner $119.9 million to distribute to creditors of the Ambassador Insurance Co., which failed more than two decades ago. The verdict, which came after less than a day of deliberations, is the …
