Delaware’s four-month campaign against speeding produced 6,322 citations. The Office of Highway Safety says that’s an increase of nearly 4,000 compared to a similar, three-month campaign last year. Office spokeswoman Andrea Summers says the number of fatal crashes attributed to …
A Baltimore brother and sister have been awarded $2.5 million in a lead paint case. Jurors decided Tuesday in favor of 20-year-old Dontae Wallace and 17-year-old Searra Wallace. Attorneys say their cognitive and behavioral disabilities are due in part to …
The family of an 82-year-old Boston woman who died on an MBTA escalator claims in a lawsuit that she was strangled when her hair and scarf became stuck in the machine. The allegations in the suit filed in Suffolk Superior …
Maryland is starting to keep tabs on how often doctors and nurses wash their hands at hospitals. Officials said Tuesday they’re creating teams of staff members at most of the state’s hospitals to monitor their colleagues. The monitors will be …
Boston-based insurer Liberty Mutual Group says its recently purchased Back Bay building has earned a LEED certification from the United States Green Building Council. The 19-story, 585,000-square-foot building at 10 St. James Ave is the first building in the Back …
Maine’s Insurance Bureau says workers’ compensation rates will decrease by an average of 7 percent. Insurance Superintendent Mila Kofman said Monday that an industry request for a decrease has been approved. It will lower rates in 2010 by an average …
When a fire destroyed the beloved, centuries-old Putney General Store 18 months ago, some people here cried. The creaky wooden building where locals arrived for coffee, hardware and gossip, and where tourists ducked in to buy maple syrup by the …
New Yorkers: Put the BlackBerry away if you’re behind the wheel. New York’s law against texting while driving went into effect Sunday. The new law forbids the use of mobile devices for reading, typing and sending text messages while driving. …
Maryland-based insurance and risk management firm HMS Insurance Associates Inc. has made several executive-level promotions. Nancey Bohlen has been promoted to chief financial officer and vice president of operations. She will oversee financial aspects of insurance and non-insurance related business. …
Insurance wholesale broker S.H. Smith & Co. has hired Shawn Young as a vice president in its large property/casualty department and Lisa A. Cox as vice president of it in-house underwriting division. Young, who will be based in S.H. Smith …
