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Port Authority Cleared of Negligence Claims in ’93 WTC Bombing
Sep 28 2011 // Last week, New York State’s high court cleared Port Authority of New York and New Jersey of negligence claims in the 1993 World Trade Center parking garage bombing. The Sept. 22 ruling reverses lower courts’...
Ohio Supreme Court: Township not Liable for Officer’s Out-of-Jurisdiction Crash
Sep 20 2011 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that a political subdivision is immune from liability if one of its police officers is involved in a traffic accident when responding to an emergency even if it is located out the...
Mississippi City Police to Send E-mail Crime Alerts
Sep 13 2011 // The Columbus, Mississippi Police Department is launching the Columbus Business Alert initiative, an effort to inform local businesses of crime information as it is happening. Police department spokeswoman Terrie Songer...
Hacker Group Not So Anonymous Anymore
Sep 13 2011 // The computer hackers, chat room denizens and young people who comprise the loosely affiliated Internet collective known as Anonymous have increasingly turned to questionable tactics, drawing the attention of the FBI, the...
Police Settle with Michigan Family of Boy Killed by Stun Gun
Aug 23 2011 // The family of a 15-year-old boy who died after a Bay City police officer used a stun gun on him in 2009 is getting a share of a $1 million settlement. The Bay City Times reported that U.S. District Court Judge Thomas L....
Aruba Police Probe Insurance Link in Missing Tourist Case
Aug 19 2011 // A U.S. tourist detained in the presumed death of his travel companion on the Caribbean island of Aruba had an insurance policy that covered the missing woman, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Gary Giordano mentioned the travel...
Vermont Family Seeks Wrongful Death Retrial Against State Police
Aug 16 2011 // The family of a mentally ill Vermont man shot to death by Vermont State Police troopers is asking a federal appeals court to order a wrongful death trial. The family of Robert Fortunati wants a new trial on their claims...
Virginia ‘Guns in Bars’ Study Finds Little Effect on Crime
Aug 16 2011 // The number of gun crimes at Virginia bars and restaurants declined slightly during the first year of a new state law that allows people with permits to carry concealed firearms into establishments that serve alcohol, a...
Port Smith Agency Owner Missing
Aug 15 2011 // Malcolm Tidwell, an insurance agent from Port Smith is reported missing. The exact date of his disappearance is unknown. Police were first alerted to his disappearance by one of his clients who said that he missed their...
Managing Agency, Company Relationships the Easy Way
Aug 15 2011 // Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Insurance Journal’s Satire Issue, August 15, 2011. The content in this issue is not real and is not to be taken seriously. It’s supposed to be humorous....
UK Insurers Welcome PM’s Pledge on Compensation Scheme
Aug 12 2011 // The UK’s insurance industry “has welcomed Prime Minister David Cameron’s announcement that the Riot Act police compensation schemes will operate as normal and has promised to use its expertise to help the...
Minnesota Police Ticket 21 for Driving 100 MPH
Aug 11 2011 // The Minnesota Department of Public Safety said it ticketed 21 motorists for driving more than 100 mph and 72 drivers for going more than 90 mph during a stepped-up speeding enforcement campaign in July. State Patrol Lt....
ABI Explains UK Riot Coverage; Damages Estimated to Exceed $162 Million
Aug 10 2011 // The Association of British Insurers has issued a set of guidelines and an explanation of the insurance coverage incident to the recent riots in London and other UK cities. The ABI estimates that insured losses and damage...
Britain Burns: Riots Spread through UK Cities
Aug 10 2011 // A wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country’s worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in...
New York Man Gets $90K for Police Dog Bite
Jul 22 2011 // The New York man who was bitten by a police dog will receive $90,000 from the city of Mount Vernon. Carlos Garcia filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city in 2008. According to court papers, police were searching for...
Utah Parents Sue Police, City Over Son’s Shooting Death
Jul 15 2011 // A West Valley City, Utah couple is suing police, claiming officers used excessive force in the 2010 shooting death of their son. Etta and Frank Chief filed the civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City this...
Murdoch’s Bow to Pressure; Will Attend UK Parliament’s Investigation
Jul 14 2011 // Rupert Murdoch on Thursday caved in to pressure from Britain’s parliament to answer questions over alleged crimes at one of his newspapers, setting up a showdown with lawmakers keen to break the media mogul’s...
Kentucky Police Say Texting While Driving Law Tough to Enforce
Jul 7 2011 // Kentucky police agencies say the commonwealth’s texting-while-driving statute is well intended, but difficult to enforce. The law took effect a year ago, but officers issued only verbal warnings for the first six...
Suspect in Insurance-Scheme Shooting Killed by Police in Pennsylvania
Jul 6 2011 // A career criminal suspected of shooting five people, two of them fatally, inside a suburban home over an alleged insurance-fraud scheme was killed by SWAT team members after a six-hour standoff Monday, authorities in...
Strauss-Kahn: Going From Defendant to Plaintiff Could Be Risky
Jul 6 2011 // After spending six weeks as a defendant in a criminal sexual assault case that now appears to be falling apart, Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have a seat waiting for him at the plaintiffs’ table, but taking it comes...
