A jury this week ordered car seat maker Evenflo Co. to pay nearly $6.7 million to the parents of a 4-month-old Montana boy who died of head injuries in a July 2000 crash. The 12-member district court jury decided Evenflo …
Following a jury trial, a Los Angeles judge signed a $163,387 award to Farmers Insurance Exchange in a body shop fraud lawsuit with future hearings expected to double the monetary award. The Court also issued an injunction prohibiting the body …
Fire crews in northwest Montana worked to keep a fast-moving wildfire from destroying homes Wednesday, as officials near here asked residents near the Meriwether fire to leave their seasonal homes. The 3,000-acre Garceau fire, likely sparked by lightning Tuesday morning, …
Massive fires raged out of control across Greece on Thursday, after killing three people overnight in the south, burning through villages and forests and stretching firefighting services to the limit. Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis appealed to Russian President Vladimir …
Connecticut’s Webster Financial Corp., the parent of Webster Bank that owns the state’s largest insurance agency, could be out of the insurance agency business soon. Following a strategic review begun last September, the bank has decided to focus on its …
An Ohio woman’s personal information was stolen from the Franklin County Municipal Court Web site and used to open fraudulent credit cards, prompting the court clerk to limit public access to the site, authorities said earlier this week. By plugging …
U.S. Representative Melvin L. Watt, D-N.C., chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today announced that the hearing entitled: “Credit-Based Insurance Scores: Are They Fair” is postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date. “The growing use of …
The first court challenge to prohibitive fees Virginia is imposing on bad and dangerous drivers was postponed in a Henrico County court Tuesday. Anthony Price, charged with his fifth violation for driving on a suspended license, was unaware his citation …
The New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union says requiring $1 million in insurance to hold events on public property in Jaffrey violates constitutional free speech rights. The civil liberties union has taken issue with the town’s new insurance requirement. The group …
Lockton Companies, LLC is expanding its services with the addition of Mickey Brown as senior vice president and Brian Fetherston as vice president-unit manager in the Atlanta office. Brown has more than 20 years’ experience in international finance, mergers & …
