Federal accident investigators are considering new safety recommendations for school buses, large trucks and commercial drivers based on two similar fatal crashes in New Jersey and Florida last year. The National Transportation Safety Board was meeting this week to consider …
Halliburton Co. has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday. The government said Halliburton’s guilty plea is the third by a company over …
Wholesale insurance broker Swett & Crawford has added Zach Burdine as a broker in its casualty and property practice groups in Dallas, Texas. Burdine brings his extensive background in wholesale and retail insurance to Swett & Crawford. He was most …
Falling televisions sent nearly 200,000 U.S. children to the emergency room over 20 years, and the injury rate has climbed substantially for these sometimes deadly accidents, a study found. Doctors and safety experts say better awareness is needed about the …
A federal judge has agreed with Detroit, Mich., and stopped any lawsuits challenging the city’s bankruptcy, declaring his courtroom the exclusive venue for legal action in the largest filing by a local government in U.S. history. The decision by U.S. …
Jefferson Parish in Louisiana cannot be made to pay for belongings lost in a rented house that burned down at the height of Hurricane Gustav while the sheriff tried to put out the fire with a garden hose, a judge …
The Missouri Department of Insurance announced it has filed an emergency rule to comply with provisions of Senate Bill 262, which was passed by the Missouri General Assembly with an emergency clause for the licensing of “navigators” prior to the …
A Tulsa, Okla., insurance company has filed a defamation lawsuit against former board member and state Rep. Wayne Pettigrew. In the lawsuit, First Trinity Financial Corp. claimed that Pettigrew made false and defamatory statements about the company and its top …
The Republican-controlled U.S. House will try to cut billions of dollars from the food stamp program before negotiating an overall farm bill with the Senate, the House majority leader said on Thursday two months before the current farm law expires. …
Trevor Johnson has joined the Ted Todd Insurance Agency’s senior management team as its sales manager. He will oversee sales operations in all seven of the Allstate ageny’s offices located in Bonita Springs, Estero, Fort Myers/Lehigh Acres, Cape Coral, Sarasota, …
