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Landowners are voting on a proposed $2.7 million flood control project to divert pooling sheet water away from the northeast North Dakota city of Michigan. Officials say the Michigan Spillway project also would relieve flooding on about 40,000 acres of …
The Michigan Supreme Court has made it easier for auto accident victims to sue for pain and suffering under the state’s no-fault law. The new court ruling lowers the threshold of what is considered a serious impairment of body function …
Officials in Des Moines are looking for money to buy more properties in a flood-prone area of the city. City Manager Rick Clark says that flooding in the Four Mile Creek area is “uncontrolled” — and that recent heavy rains …
Agents Must Employ Creative Insurance Marketing … or Else GEICO, State Farm, Progressive, e-surance and other major insurance marketers currently employ humor in their advertising. There’s GEICO’s prolonged use of the gecko, State Farm’s whyagent.com Web site, Progressive’s Flo and …
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world to provide more aid to flood-ravaged Pakistan on Sunday as the 20 million people made homeless grew increasingly desperate and new torrents inundated villages. Survivors fought over food being handed out from a …
The federal government is affirming it will pay 90 percent of the disaster recovery costs from tornadoes and floods that hit Mississippi in late April and early May. U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran announced the federal share Thursday. The usual cost-sharing …
Alabama will get some $1 million in federal cash for the city of Albertville’s recovery from April’s tornado and storms. U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Haleyville, announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency would award …
GEICO, State Farm, Progressive, e-surance and other major insurance marketers currently employ humor in their advertising. There’s GEICO’s prolonged use of the gecko, State Farm’s whyagent.com Web site, Progressive’s Flo and e-surance play acting some fictional internal friction. Today’s attitude …
Asia’s heavy monsoons, a record heatwave in Russia and severe droughts in Africa show the need for new yardsticks to rate extreme weather to guide everybody from road builders to insurance companies, a U.N. expert said on Friday. Scales exist …
