Federal inspectors have found more than 60 serious safety violations at Massey Energy operations since the explosion that killed 29 miners, adding to fallout from the disaster that includes a wrongful death lawsuit by one of the men’s widows. Inspectors …
While some of the ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in southern Iceland has fallen to the earth’s surface, property and agricultural damage is not expected to be a concern, according to a catastrophe risk modeling firm. AIR Worldwide said the …
Dallas-based independent insurance claims services company, Cunningham Lindsey, has expanded Randy Gray’s leadership responsibilities to include the Catastrophe Division. Gray currently is the vice president of operations for the South Central Region. He will assume responsibility for the Catastrophe Division …
A trust fund that invests in Massey Energy wants the board of directors and top executives held personally accountable for the recent explosion that killed 29 coal miners. The Manville Personal Injury Trust sued last week in Kanawha Circuit Court. …
The economic impact of the volcanic cloud halting flights across Europe will increase sharply the longer disruption continues, forcing holiday cancellations, delaying deliveries and reducing jet fuel demand. African exporters of flowers and vegetables by air to European supermarkets, technology …
Two years ago, Larry Frese thought he’d escaped the worst of a flood that had left a lot of his neighbors’ homes in Chelsea, Iowa, and a large swath of the state underwater, even as overflowing Otter Creek lapped at …
Massey Energy Co. said its officials are meeting with families of the 29 miners killed the April 5 blast at its Upper Big Branch mine to describe the benefits the firm will provide them and denied it was trying to …
A volcanic eruption in Iceland, which has thrown up a 6-km (3.7 mile) high plume of ash and disrupted air traffic across northern Europe, has grown more intense, an expert said on Thursday. The eruption under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier continued …
Congress Thursday voted to restore jobless benefits for hundreds of thousands of Americans who had lost them during a partisan standoff in the Senate over spending. [The bill also reauthorizes the federal flood insurance program until the end of May …
West Virginia’s governor has asked a former top federal mine safety official to conduct an independent investigation of an explosion that killed 29 miners in his state, and also called for more scrutiny of mines with a history of safety …
