The City Council in Maine’s largest city has effectively put the kibosh on a young man’s golf cart transportation service on Peaks Island. Nineteen-year-old Matt Rand has offered rides in his golf cart in exchange for tips from people getting …
A New Jersey fire department has paid a former volunteer $15,000 to settle her gender discrimination case. As part of the settlement with Merrissa Garretson, members of the Clementon Fire and Rescue company will also undergo training aimed at preventing …
A federal judge has set a forfeiture hearing for a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge who is serving a 46-month prison sentence for insurance fraud. Michael Joyce, of Millcreek Township, was convicted of mail fraud and money laundering in late …
From Park Avenue to Queens Boulevard, some 1,500 New York City intersections are getting countdown crosswalk signals to help millions of pedestrians know how much time they have to cross streets. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other city officials on Monday …
A Boston judge delayed ruling Monday on Lorillard Tobacco Co.’s request to reject a lawsuit that accuses the nation’s third-largest tobacco company of targeting black youth in its cigarette marketing. Judge Linda Giles of Suffolk Superior Court told lawyers for …
Self-storage company operators in New York will be allowed to obtain insurance licenses to sell contents coverage to their clients, under a law signed by Gov. David Paterson. The law allows the state’s Department of Insurance to grant limited licenses …
Six months after a massive fire destroyed a block of businesses at New Hampshire’s Hampton Beach, investigators still can’t say what caused it. Hampton Fire Chief Chris Silver tells the Portsmouth Herald five private fire investigators, a state investigator, attorneys, …
Pennsylvania authorities have arrested a man who allegedly fabricated a $1.4 million insurance claim for storm damage to eight modular homes he owned in Pottstown. Attorney General Tom Corbett said that Kevin Paul Kollar faces criminal charges for allegedly lying …
The head of Connecticut’s workers’ compensation program says the largest payouts in 12 years may eventually be made to survivors and family members of employees killed last week at a Manchester beer distributor. John Mastropietro, chairman of the state Workers …
In a series of court filings, the New York Attorney General’s Office and State Insurance Department argue that new rules requiring agents to disclose their pay to clients are needed to penetrate a “cloak of secrecy” that pervades over agent-client …
