12 Number of tropical storms Colorado State’s hurricane team estimates will occur in 2009. The research team said of those 12 storms, six could become hurricanes including two “major” hurricanes of Category 3 or higher on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity …
225 The weight of a 61-year-old Bloomfield Hills, Mich., man who is suing his former employer, claiming he was fired from a $75,000-a-year salesman’s job because of his waistline. The employer says Patrick J. Ronayne was let go because of …
$109 Million The amount Ernst & Young LLP has agreed to pay to HealthSouth Corp. shareholders who sued the firm for failing to detect an accounting fraud involving more than a dozen executives, according to papers filed in Birmingham federal …
165 The estimated incurred loss ratio for insurers in Texas in 2008 is a record high of 127; the combined loss and expense ratio is 165. Texas Department of Insurance “Texas Homeowners Insurance Loss Data 1992-2008” report puts estimated losses …
$28.2 Billion Amount insurers contributed to California’s gross state product in 2006, according to a report by the Insurance Information Institute. The report also noted insurers accounted for nearly 300,000 jobs in the state. Property and casualty insurers provided approximately …
$568 Million Amount spent by New York City to settle damage claims in fiscal year 2008 – an amount that was about $10 million higher than the previous year. Property damage from two major storms helped drive the total number …
$743 Million The latest damage estimate from last summer’s flooding at the University of Iowa – nearly triple the earlier estimate. University officials said it includes all building and content damage and the costs to relocate building complexes for theater …
30,000 The number of Florida homeowners who could end up as part of a class action suit against German drywall maker Knauf Gips KG and other manufacturers of Chinese drywall. The plaintiffs allege that the plasterboard is contaminated and is …
0.08 Legislation that would lower the legal blood alcohol concentration limit for the offense of boating under the influence from 0.10 percent to 0.08 percent has been approved by the Oklahoma Senate. The measure also would prohibit children under the …
$1 Billion The effects of the widespread peanut butter recall could cost rural America’s peanut producers $1 billion in lost production and sales, according to testimony at a House subcommittee hearing. That could be just the beginning, the head of …
