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Massachusetts Police Arrest 13 in Auto Insurance Fraud Case
Jul 20 2009 // Thirteen people have been charged with auto insurance fraud in connection with what Massachusetts police say was a staged accident that resulted in more than $76,000 in insurance payouts. Lawrence, Massachusetts Police...
Document Indicates US SEC, CFTC to Police OTC Derivatives
Jul 10 2009 // U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to propose on Friday giving securities and futures regulators authority to police the largely unregulated over-the-counter derivatives market, according to a document...
Massachusetts Police Arrest 13 in Auto Insurance Fraud Case
Jul 8 2009 // Thirteen people from Lawrence and Methuen have been charged with auto insurance fraud in connection with what police say was a staged accident that resulted in more than $76,000 in insurance payouts. Lawrence Chief John...
Fireworks Explosions Kill 5 Across U.S.
Jul 7 2009 // Five people working on Independence Day fireworks shows were killed by explosions, four of them by a single blast that rocked Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The fifth died after an...
Pittsburgh Police Probe Sixth Arson 2 Weeks
Jun 23 2009 // Police and fire investigators say a sixth arson has been reported in Pittsburgh’s Sheraden neighborhood. Police have no suspects in any of the fires, which have occurred in about the last two weeks. The latest fire...
Indiana Police Officer Faces Insurance Fraud Charge
May 26 2009 // A St. Joseph County, Ind., police officer who allegedly crashed a rental car while doing emergency driving moves he had recently learned at the police academy has been charged with conspiracy to commit insurance...
Virginia State Police Traffic Crackdown Results in 6,800 Violations
May 22 2009 // Virginia State Police say a two-day traffic safety campaign along Interstates 81 and 95 resulted in more than 6,800 violations. State Police conducted Operation Air, Land & Speed on Sunday and Monday. Along I-81,...
Texas High Court Rules Against Insurer in Fleeing Truck Case
Apr 20 2009 // The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that an insurance company must pay a family’s claim over a child critically injured by a truck that was fleeing from police. The child’s parents, Greg and Maribel Tanner, sued...
Las Vegas Police Say Task Force Curbing Car Thefts
Apr 15 2009 // Las Vegas police say a push to curb auto thefts is behind a big drop in the number of vehicles stolen in southern Nevada. A report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau said that Clark County had the seventh-most cars...
Arkansas Lawmakers Pass Measure Banning ‘Accident Tax’
Apr 1 2009 // Arkansas lawmakers have approved a new law that stops local governments from billing motorists for accident response services performed by police departments, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of...
Arkansas Supreme Court Sides With Newspaper in Lawsuit
Mar 17 2009 // A legal principle covering journalists who base their reports on police records protects a newspaper sued over stories it published about an alleged rape, the Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled. In an unanimous decision, the...
Vermont Police Search for Suspect behind String of 22 Arsons
Mar 10 2009 // Police in Barre, Vermont are trying to solve a string of 22 arson fires that go back to October, including three on Thursday. Police released a surveillance video of what appears to be a suspect setting a fire in a trash...
Former New Jersey Police Officer Sentenced for Insurance Fraud
Mar 6 2009 // A former Camden City, New Jersey police officer has been sentenced for insurance fraud for falsely claiming that vans used by his patient transportation business were only being driven for personal use, according to state...
South Carolina Police Say Camera Helps Recover Stolen Cars
Mar 5 2009 // The police chief in North Charleston, South Carolina says a new camera system that can check license plates in an instant is so good at finding stolen cars and tags, he wants to set up a camera in high crime areas. Chief...
Reno Police: Traffic Accidents Drop in 2008
Feb 19 2009 // Reno, Nev., police say efforts to target busy intersections for traffic and safety enforcement is paying off with few serious crashes. Police Lt. David Evans says in 2008, statistics show fatal accidents declined 35...
Police: New York Man with Anti-DWI Device in DWI Crash
Feb 18 2009 // Police say a Long Island man whose car was outfitted with an anti-drunken-driving device rented another car and crashed it while intoxicated. Police say 27-year-old Marvin Rice, Junior, of Shirley, lost control of a rental...
Australia Police Declare Bushfire Disaster a ‘Crime Scene’
Feb 10 2009 // Australian police treated the country’s entire bushfire disaster zone as a crime scene on Tuesday as investigators combed through a blackened wasteland to find clues to the culprits behind the country’s...
5 Risk Management Challenges for Public Entities in Today’s Economy
Feb 8 2009 // Local governments increased their commitment to risk management over the past decade, as they met the challenges posed by several major natural disaster and terrorism events. Better local government loss prevention, crisis...
Ohio Among States Weighing Tougher Seat Belt Laws to Get Funding
Feb 6 2009 // More cash-strapped states want to give law enforcement officers the authority to pull over motorists who aren’t wearing seat belts. The 15 states, including Ohio, that are considering making the switch need to do so...
Florida High Court Rules Police Can Be Sued Over Safety Checks
Feb 2 2009 // A sharply divided Florida Supreme Court says law enforcement agencies can be sued over “safety checks” that go bad. The justices ruled 4-3 in the case of an elderly woman who later died after Marion County...
