The company that owned the stage involved in the deadly 2011 Indiana State Fair rigging collapse has agreed to pay a $50,000 fine for safety violations. The Indiana Department of Labor says Mid-America Sound Corp. of Greenfield also has agreed …
A court says the state isn’t responsible for work performed by a contractor involved in the 2011 Indiana State Fair stage collapse. The Indiana attorney general’s office said that a Marion County judge denied Mid-America Sound Corporation’s claim that the …
Two years after the deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse, new legal disputes are cropping up and victims are still working to recover. Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. and subsidiary AGCS Marine, which insured equipment used by Sugarland and Sara Bareilles, …
The architect of compensation for victims of last year’s deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse says he believes the state was “exceedingly fair” with victims. Victims’ compensation specialist Kenneth Feinberg tells The Associated Press that officials had limited resources to …
The Indiana State Fair came to a standstill on the night of Aug. 13 to honor the victims of a deadly stage collapse one year ago that prompted sweeping overhauls of the fair’s emergency plan and new regulations for temporary …
Indiana lawmakers presented their decision to offer an additional $6 million to victims of a deadly stage collapse at last year’s state fair as a way to help those who weren’t adequately compensated by its first settlement. But buried in …
Concerns about weather, costs and new regulations on temporary stages sparked by last year’s deadly stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair have prompted organizers to cancel an annual Fourth of July picnic and concert in Bloomington. The Bloomington Pops …
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels told an entertainment industry group pushing for safer outdoor events that the state has learned from last year’s deadly State Fair stage collapse and is moving to approve emergency rules for outdoor stages. But Daniels conceded …
The company that built the stage ahead of last summer’s deadly Indiana State Fair collapse appeared to be indifferent to safety standards, the state Department of Labor said in a report released Feb. 8. The agency cited Mid-America Sound Corp. …
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced that 64 of the 65 claimants who were offered settlements in the Indiana State Fair tragedy have accepted their settlement offers. Checks will be issued by the end of December that will pay out …
