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Two Injured When Connecticut Ice Cream Shop Ceiling Collapses
Jul 8 2021 // Two people were injured when the ceiling of a Connecticut ice cream shop collapsed, authorities said. A portion of the ceiling inside Milkcraft in West Hartford collapsed just before 8 p.m. Monday, West Hartford Fire Chief...
Five Ways to Position Workers’ Compensation in a COVID-19-impacted World
Jul 8 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by The Hanover Insurance Group. With prevailing economic pressures widely expected to persist, more and more businesses will consider different ways to adapt, including the...
Six Charged in New York Care Home Fire Where Firefighter, Resident Died
Jul 1 2021 // Six people are facing charges ranging from arson and manslaughter to filing a false instrument and criminal impersonation in connection to a fire at an assisted living facility in a New York City suburb earlier this year...
Two Workers Treated for Burns After Fire at Connecticut Plating Company
Jun 23 2021 // Two workers at a Connecticut chrome plating company were transported to a burn hospital after a process “went awry” and sparked a flash fire that firefighters were still battling hours later, a task made more...
Six Flags Park Settling Illinois Park Fingerprints Lawsuit for $36M
Jun 14 2021 // Six Flags Great America has settled a class-action lawsuit by agreeing to pay $36 million over the use of fingerprint scanners at its Illinois theme park. Pass holders and others who visited the Gurnee park between October...
Three Disasters Show Gaps in Infrastructure Plan
May 25 2021 // Three times this year, major pieces of U.S. infrastructure have failed: first the Texas power grid, then the East Coast’s main gasoline pipeline, then a freeway bridge over the Mississippi River. The crises disrupted...
Two Takeaways from Delta-8 Conversation
May 24 2021 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Delta-8 is generating quite a buzz over what appears to be legal loophole enabling the production and sales of the intoxicating product in both legal and non-legal states. New York just...
Two Bills Relating to Auto Insurance Claims Practices Advance in Texas
May 11 2021 // The Texas House of Representatives recently advance two pieces of legislation that address claims arising out of vehicle accidents. House Bill 359 The Texas House May 7 passed House Bill 359, which addresses delaying...
Two Die in Tesla Crash in Texas
Apr 19 2021 // Two men died after a Tesla vehicle, which was believed to be operating without anyone in the driver’s seat, crashed into a tree on Saturday night north of Houston, authorities said. “There was no one in the...
Three Steps to Improve Your Hiring Process
Apr 19 2021 // In January, my spouse and I made a spur of the moment decision to sell our house. It was exciting and nerve wracking all at the same time. It was hard to ignore the parallels between this experience and the hiring process....
Four Girls, 12 and 14 Years Old, Accused of Setting Pennsylvania House Fire
Apr 13 2021 // Four teenage girls ranging in age from 12 to 14 have been arrested on juvenile court charges of setting a fire that destroyed an unoccupied western Pennsylvania house earlier this month, sending a police officer and a...
Three Dozen California Bills Focus on Wildfire, Others Are Concerning for Insurance Industry
Apr 6 2021 // Roughly three dozen pieces of California legislation are directly related to wildfire, and while those bills should hold much interest for the insurance community, there are other bills making their rounds that should draw...
Three Tales of Troubled Insurance Relationships
Apr 1 2021 // Three insurance relationship tales from today’s newswire. Woman Sues Insurtech Over Broken Heart Thrice-divorced Natalie Galumpkin says she knows a bad experience when she has one and her experience buying home...
Two Workers Injured in 30-Foot Fall Off Slippery Roof in Massachusetts
Mar 24 2021 // Two workers fell about 30 feet off the roof of a duplex under construction in Massachusetts early Friday and were flown to hospitals, authorities said The Mashpee Fire Department responded to the call around 8:30 a.m.,...
Two Arrested After Fire in Vermont Hotel Room That Injured Woman
Mar 22 2021 // Two people have been arrested after police responded to what they called a suspicious fire at a hotel in Berlin that critically injured a woman. A fire ignited in the 56-year-old woman’s room at the Hilltop Inn,...
One Month Later, Boil Water Advisory Lifted for Jackson, Mississippi Residents
Mar 22 2021 // After 30 days of boiling their water to get rid of contaminants and sometimes no water at all, Jackson residents are finally able to drink the water from the tap after officials lifted a boil water advisory put in place in...
Two Dead After Getting Struck at Boston Construction Site
Mar 4 2021 // Two people died when they were struck by a truck at a construction site in Boston on Wednesday, officials said. The workers were struck on High Street in the city’s Financial District just after 8 a.m., interim...
Two Massachusetts Men Charged Following Fatal Motorcycle Crash in New Hampshire
Mar 2 2021 // Two Massachusetts men were charged in federal court in Springfield in connection with falsifying driving logs, instructing others to do so and making a false statement to investigators. The charges are the result of a...
Nine Injured, Two Seriously, in Explosion at New York City Residence
Feb 23 2021 // Authorities said nine people were injured, two seriously, after an explosion Thursday at a three-story New York City residence that blew out windows and sent a door flying into power lines. The report of an explosion on...
Three Injured in Gas Line Explosion in Northern Virginia
Feb 5 2021 // Three people were injured in a gas line explosion on Wednesday which also set three vehicles on fire and caused damage to a house in a northern Virginia city. News outlets report Fairfax County Fire and Rescue said on its...
