12% The decrease in workplace deaths in Virginia last year, according to the state’s labor department. There were 164 occupational fatalities in the state in 2006, down from 186 the previous year. Transportation accidents led with 60 deaths. $1.2 million …
$130 million October and November are two of the most dangerous months in Michigan for car-deer crashes, according to AAA Michigan Motor Club. “Car-deer crashes in Michigan cause at least $130 million in damage annually, with an average cost of …
103 The number of Mississippi cases relating to Hurricane Katrina claims included in a settlement with State Farm Mutual Insurance Co. last month. Terms of the settlement are confidential, said attorney Chip Merlin. Forty-seven of the 103 policyholders involved had …
$21 million The amount awarded to Ralph Currier, 21, a Windsor County, Vermont man who was permanently injured in a car accident two years ago. It is one of the largest lawsuit awards in the state’s history. The award was …
65 New U.S. census figures show that the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul rank fourth in the nation in the percentage of seniors working past age 65. Of Twin Cities residents in their late 60s and early 70s, more than …
3 Former Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher recently began serving a three-year prison term as the result of a conviction in a campaign-corruption case. He also must pay a $20,000 fine. Fisher has been under house arrest at his home …
$10.3 million The verdict handed down by a Florida jury in agreeing with a widow that an emergency room doctor’s negligence caused her husband’s premature death. Nadine Raphael said Dr. James Shecter did not administer critical medicine when her 73-year-old …
$21 million The amount awarded to Ralph Currier, 21, a Windsor County, Vermont man who was permanently injured in a car accident two years ago. It is one of the largest lawsuit awards in the state’s history. The award was …
65 New U.S. census figures show that the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul rank fourth in the nation in the percentage of seniors working past age 65. Of Twin Cities residents in their late 60s and early 70s, more than …
$10.3 million The verdict handed down by a Florida jury in agreeing with a widow that an emergency room doctor’s negligence caused her husband’s premature death. Nadine Raphael said Dr. James Shecter did not administer critical medicine when her 73-year-old …
