May 3, 2023
A longtime worker at a North Carolina furniture products company, described as a model employee, died in 2020 under somewhat mysterious circumstances. Co-workers described hearing a “strange noise” as Rodney Baker was cleaning around a running band saw machine. Baker …
May 2, 2023
Residents of a small West Virginia town less than two hours from the nation’s capital are worried that their health and quality of life in the Allegheny Mountains will be upended by a logging company’s plans to relocate a toxin-spewing …
May 2, 2023
Risk retention groups may not be the sexiest of insurance topics, but they have gained new attention this week after the Florida House of Representatives approved a bill that would require strong financial ratings for the groups that operate in …
May 2, 2023
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Friday that a special lawmaking session dedicated to possible changes to the state’s gun laws in the wake of a deadly school shooting last month would likely have to take place after July 4. “I …
May 1, 2023
Management shut down production Saturday at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee after three workers were struck by a vehicle on a walkway just outside the plant, authorities said. One person was killed, a second was critically injured and a third …
May 1, 2023
A northeast Mississippi tire plant that was damaged by an April tornado is expected to restart production in June. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said this week that it was likely to take several months for its Cooper Tire plant …
May 1, 2023
A south Florida jury has awarded $5.5 million to a woman who sued her condominium association after years of water infiltration and mold that the woman blamed for the death of her longtime domestic partner in 2021. The Broward County …
May 1, 2023
President Joe Biden declared Florida’s Broward County a disaster area Friday, two weeks after record-breaking rain left parts of Fort Lauderdale and its suburbs flooded. Gov. Ron DeSantis had requested the declaration earlier this week. The declaration makes Broward residents …
April 28, 2023
Two back-to-back federal court decisions may have dealt a lethal blow to recent proposed class actions that sought interest on property insurers’ late claims payments. But the rulings have left some insureds and their attorneys feeling that they’re seeing another …
April 27, 2023
It was 45 years ago today that a huge scaffold system collapsed inside a cooling tower under construction at a West Virginia power plant, sending 51 workers tumbling to their deaths 170 feet below. Eleven members of one family were …