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Inszone Acquires Cascade Insurance Center in Oregon

Inszone Insurance Services acquired Cascade Insurance Center in the Bend, Oregon. The Cascade Insurance Center team will continue to operate out of their Bend location under the Inszone Insurance Services umbrella. Sacramento, California-based Inszone is an insurance brokerage firm that …

Pilot Declared Emergency, Loss of Autopilot Before Crash That Killed 3

The pilot of a plane that crashed in northeast Wyoming in July, killing seven people, declared an emergency and loss of the autopilot shortly before the incident that claimed the lives of three members of the Gospel Music Association Hall …

Officer Sentenced for Selling Crash Victim Information to Referral Service for Lawyers

A former patrol officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was recently sentenced in U.S. District Court to 20 months in prison for his role in a bribery scheme in which he unlawfully provided non-public police information in exchange for …

Driver of Partially Automated Mustang Charged With DUI Homicide

A woman was intoxicated and using a partially automated driving system when she caused a March highway crash in Philadelphia that killed two people, authorities said as they announced homicide charges against the driver. State and federal investigators say the …

SpaceX Faces Concerns Over Environment Damage in South Texas

BOCA CHICA — It wasn’t just a day at the beach. But it never is on this small strip of sand near the Texas-Mexico border, not since SpaceX began launching rockets here. On this particular Saturday in August, about a …

AM Best Downgrades Credit Rating of Iowa’s IMT Insurance

AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A-(Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “a-” (Excellent) from “a” (Excellent) of IMT Insurance Company and its affiliate, Wadena Insurance Company. These companies are domiciled in …

CSU Forecasters Predict Quiet Hurricane Activity to Start September

The first two weeks of September are expected to be quiet for Atlantic hurricane activity, according to experts at Colorado State University. The CSU Tropical Meteorology Project, which has been forecasting the Atlantic hurricane season for more than 40 years, …

Three Charged With Auto Insurance Fraud in Miami After False Injury Claims

Florida authorities have charged a Miami-area nurse practitioner and two others with creating false medical reports and attempting to defraud an auto insurance carrier out of more than $47,000. Local news reports said that investigators with the state Department of …

Man Drives Car Through Restaurant Patio in Minneapolis Suburb, Killing 2

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) — A man drove his car through a restaurant patio where a group of medical workers were celebrating in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday, killing two people and injuring at least four, police and hospital …

Explosion Destroys Southwest Louisiana Home, Killing 1 and Injuring 5

RAGLEY, La. (AP) — Investigators are trying to determine the cause of an explosion that destroyed a southwest Louisiana home, killing a teenage boy from Alabama and injuring five other people. Louisiana State Fire Marshal Bryan J. Adams said the …

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