12%
The decrease in workplace deaths in Virginia last year, according to the state’s labor department. There were 164 occupational fatalities in the state in 2006, down from 186 the previous year. Transportation accidents led with 60 deaths.
$1.2 million
The amount of the settlement reached by Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort with a Philadelphia woman who claimed she was injured when the toilet she was sitting on broke away from the wall in her hotel room bathroom.
$32.5 million
The amount of the total $72.4 million in state premium subsidy that Maryland’s largest medical malpractice insurer says it plans to return to the state because the cost of claims is dropping. The subsidy program was enacted in 2004 after Med Mutual hiked rates 28 percent and 33 percent.
$33 million
How much the state’s Dirigo Health program will save the Maine health care system $32.8 million in its third year of operation, as estimated by the Maine superintendent of insurance.
1.9%
The drop in the number of property crimes in the past year, according to the FBI. The estimated rate of property crime was 3,334.5 per 100,000 inhabitants (a 2.8-percent decline).
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