An insurance company that paid workers’ compensation to a bank employee traumatized in a Thetford, Vermont hostage-taking incident is seeking to recover the money from the family of the teenager charged in the incident. Dan Eaton, 16, is serving a …
Torrential rains pelted central Vermont on Wednesday, triggering flash flooding that washed out roads and inundated the city of Barre, where water ran up to 6 feet deep for a time. Between 3 and 4 inches fell in the area …
The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists, according to a government report. Records about identity thefts, real estate transactions, motor vehicle accidents and complaints about Internet drug …
A lawsuit over a 2004 car accident is posing a legal dilemma for Vermont courts, which are being asked to decide whether punitive damages can be sought in wrongful death cases. The Vermont Supreme Court has never ruled one way …
A Fair Haven, Vermont slate company is appealing a $45,000 penalty issued by the state over safety violations that regulators say still weren’t addressed five months after being cited. Shawn Camara, owner of Camara Slate Products Inc., said last week …
Few political issues get the business community’s attention like tort reform. Not surprisingly, business owners do not like to be sued any more than they like paying higher insurance costs fueled by lawsuits. One of the most influential business lobbies, …
Few political issues get the business community’s attention like tort reform. Not surprisingly, business owners do not like to be sued any more than they like paying higher insurance costs fueled by lawsuits. One of the most influential business lobbies, …
Nearly 52 percent of U.S. urban Interstates are now congested and traffic fatality rates rose slightly, but road surface conditions and bridge conditions improved, according to the Reason Foundation’s latest annual highway performance report. “Gridlock isn’t going away,” said David …
A mistrial was declared this week in the case of a Virginia man who accused the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vermont of negligence for the alleged actions of one of its priests. Chittenden County Superior Court Judge Ben Joseph …
People’s United Financial, Inc., the holding company for People’s United Bank in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has agreed to acquire similarly-sized Chittenden Corp. of Burlington, Vermont, in a stock and cash transaction valued at $1.9 billion. The combined company will have assets …
