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#1 Five Alabama Jail Medical Staff Indicted in Death of Mentally Ill Inmate
Jul 31 2025 // Five medical employees at an Alabama jail have been indicted in connection with the death of a mentally ill man who died of hypothermia after being held for two weeks in a concrete cell. The indictment unsealed Tuesday...
#2 Two More Beach Homes Near Collapse as Erin’s Waves Pound NC Outer Banks
Aug 22 2025 // Two homes on the North Carolina Outer Banks sit precariously in the high waves with their days seemingly numbered. Since 2020, 11 neighboring homes have fallen into the Atlantic Ocean. While the swells from storms like...
#3 Two More HO Insurers Join Florida Market, One Led by Former Metromile CEO
Sep 23 2025 // Florida regulators have approved two new homeowner insurance companies, one led by a San Francisco tech entrepreneur and former head of Metromile auto insurance company. “I focus on companies that can successfully...
#4 Two High-Profile Personal Injury Law Firms Sue… Each Other
Sep 11 2025 // Insurance folks tired of hearing about personal injury law firms going after those “greedy insurance companies” might want a ringside seat for this one. Two high-profile Boston-area personal injury law firms...
#5 Two Marquette Men’s Lacrosse Players Killed in Car Wreck
Sep 8 2025 // Two members of the Marquette men’s lacrosse team were killed in a car wreck Friday night near the school’s campus in downtown Milwaukee. Marquette officials confirmed that Scott Michaud and Noah Snyder died in...
#6 Two Men Charged with Staging Car Crashes for Insurance Money in New York City
Aug 1 2025 // Two Brooklyn men have been charged with staging three automobile accidents and then seeking insurance payouts from Allstate Insurance Co. for damages and purported injuries. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced...
#7 Four Gabriel House Residents Sue Over Assisted Living Facility’s Deadly Fire
Aug 5 2025 // Two lawsuits have been filed over the tragic fire at a Fall River, Massachusetts assisted living facility that took the lives of 10 residents and injured 30 others on July 13, making it the state’s deadliest...
#8 Ten Big Banks Defeat Antitrust Lawsuit in Over Bond Trades
Sep 3 2025 // A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed an antitrust lawsuit accusing 10 large banks of conspiring to rig corporate bond prices at the expense of ordinary investors, after the original judge recused himself because his wife...
#9 Four Charged in Death of 5-Year-Old Michigan Boy in Oxygen Chamber Explosion
Mar 13 2025 // Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was “incinerated” inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility, Michigan’s attorney general...
#10 Six States to Receive Federal Disaster Aid From Summer Floods
Sep 15 2025 // President Donald Trump has approved federal disaster aid for six states and tribes following storms and floods that occurred this spring and summer. The disaster declarations, announced Thursday, will allow federal funding...
#11 Six Things to Know About Umbrella Insurance
Jun 16 2025 // From rising courtroom verdicts to notable underwriting shifts, here are six things independent agents and brokers need to understand about today’s umbrella market. What Is an Umbrella Policy? An umbrella liability...
#12 Six Killed in Michigan Collision Between Truck and Van Carrying Amish Group
Aug 18 2025 // A pickup truck went through a stop sign in rural Michigan and crashed into a van carrying members of an Amish community, killing at least six people, authorities said. The crash occurred last Tuesday afternoon in Tuscola...
#13 Two Youths Killed, Two in Critical Condition After Barge Hits Sailboat in Miami
Jul 29 2025 // Two youths at a Miami sailing camp were killed and two others were hospitalized after a barge struck a sailboat Monday. The Associated Press, The Miami Herald and other news sites reported that one adult and five kids were...
#14 Two Georgia Men Denied Bond After Charged With Large Cache of Homemade Bombs
Jul 30 2025 // Two Georgia men, denied bond, are in jail awaiting court action after they were charged with possessing a large amount of homemade explosive devices. The Georgia Office of Insurance Commissioner and State Fire...
#15 Three Killed When Small Plane Crashes in Boca Raton Near Highway
Apr 14 2025 // BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Three people were killed and one was injured when a small plane crashed Friday morning in South Florida near a major interstate highway and pushed a car onto railroad tracks, officials said. Boca...
#16 Three Rhode Island Men Charged in Theft of Thousands of Catalytic Converters
Apr 30 2025 // Three Rhode Island men have been charged in federal court in Providence for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to steal and sell hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of catalytic converters, announced Acting U.S....
#17 Two Delta Jets Collide While Taxiing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport
Oct 3 2025 // Two Delta Air Lines Inc. regional jets collided at low speed while taxiing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday night, causing minor injuries to one flight attendant and prompting regulators to open an...
#18 Two More Insurers Enter Florida Market as Hurricane Season Warms Up
Jun 30 2025 // Two more property insurers have put their toes in the Florida market this summer, bringing to 14 the number of new carriers in the state since 2023. It’s another sign that legislative discouragement of claims...
#19 Two Plane Crashes Lead to Deadliest Year in Skies Since 2018
Dec 31 2024 // Commercial aviation has suffered its deadliest year since 2018 after the Jeju Air Co. disaster in South Korea and last week’s downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane. Fatalities onboard passenger aircraft jumped to...
#20 Four Hondurans Indicted in Florida on $89M Workers’ Comp, Tax Avoidance Charges
May 13 2025 // A grand jury in Orlando last week indicted four Honduran nationals for allegedly operating an off-the-books cash payroll scheme for construction workers that defrauded workers’ compensation insurers and avoided...
