An environmental group has filed a notice of its intent to sue the city of Newark over what it says are elevated levels of lead in the city’s drinking water. The Natural Resources Defense Council has 60 days to file …
Investigators say the pilot of a small plane had reported ice buildup on his aircraft and asked to divert to a nearby airport shortly before the crash that killed him and his passenger last week in Pennsylvania. A preliminary report …
A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania awarded summary judgment to an insurer accused of bad faith after denying a man’s claim for losses exceeding $1 million when a fire destroyed his home. The …
A Florida man was sentenced to nine years in state prison for filing more than $1.2 million in false claims for refrigerated cargo purportedly spoiled in cross-country transport by his long-haul trucking companies based out of Middlesex County, N.J. Palm …
More than 700 law enforcement officers, prosecutors and investigators from across the U.S. and Canada recently attended the seventh annual National Cyber Crime Conference hosted by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. The three-day conference serves as the largest of its …
The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has issued updated disaster response and recovery plan requirements for all insurance companies licensed to conduct business in New York state. It issued these updated requirements in light of disasters that may …
Erie Insurance, based in Erie, Penn., has promoted Sheryl Rucker to senior vice president of Erie Insurance’s Law Division. In this role, Rucker will have oversight of compliance, special investigations, agency operations and marketing, claims legal, insurance operations and legal …
USA Risk Group, a Barre, Vt.-headquartered independent captive management firm, has named Peter Rasmussen vice president of business development. Rasmussen will be responsible for driving all sales activity, and in this role, he will work closely with the organization’s subject …
Fire officials say a blaze that injured two firefighters did more than $1 million in damage to a New Jersey home. The Press of Atlantic City reports that the fire at the three-story Ventnor Heights home was reported shortly after …
Nearly $3 million in additional relief funding is going to communities in five upstate New York counties along Lake Ontario to help them recover from last year’s flooding. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that the state had awarded $2.9 million …
