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Corrosion Prompts Closing of Bridge in Indiana
Aug 14 2007 // Indiana transportation officials closed a bridge that connects two northern Indiana highways and passes over a commuter rail line after an inspection revealed potential safety problems. Officials closed the Indiana 212...
Gore: Polluters Finance Research to Cast Doubt on Global Warming
Aug 10 2007 // Former Vice President Al Gore said this week that some of the world’s largest energy companies, including Exxon Mobil Corp., are funding research aimed at disputing the scientific consensus on global warming as part...
U.S. Warns States After Potential Flaw Found in Minn. Bridge Design
Aug 10 2007 // Federal officials cautioned transportation authorities across the U.S. to re-examine bridges after investigators probing a deadly interstate bridge collapse in Minnesota said they found a potential design flaw. The...
S&P Report Analyzes U.S. Insurers Hurricane Readiness
Aug 8 2007 // So far the U.S. hurricane season has been remarkable for its absence, but Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services questions whether that trend will continue. In a report, entitled “Are U.S. Insurers Ready If...
U.S. May Join Lawsuit Claiming Insurers Defrauded Government Over Katrina Claims
Aug 8 2007 // The U.S. Department of Justice is weighing whether to intervene in a lawsuit that accuses insurance companies of overbilling the federal government for flood damage from Hurricane Katrina, a judge who unsealed the case on...
La. Independent Agents Group CEO Lauds Flood Limitation Rulings
Aug 8 2007 // The CEO of a major insurance agent trade group in Louisiana says two recent federal appeals court decisions affirming flood limitations in property policies will enhance the state’s recovery from Hurricane...
Parents, Toy Companies Stressed Over Major Toy Recall
Aug 8 2007 // Many American parents are facing a quandrary about what toys to buy their children following the recall by Mattel Inc. of almost 1 million Chinese-made toys because they may contain lead. As if fears over contaminated...
Federal Appeals Courts to Hear Key Mississippi Katrina Insurance Case
Aug 7 2007 // A federal appeals court is poised to review a judge’s verdict last year in the first trial among hundreds of lawsuits that Mississippi homeowners filed against insurance companies in Hurricane Katrina’s...
How to write energy risks in a volatile world
Aug 6 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Directors & Officers Liability
Aug 6 2007 // For years, environmental issues, including issues arising from global warming, have hovered on the periphery of concerns affecting directors’ and officers’ liability exposure. But an April 2, 2007, decision by...
Despite firefighting prowess, the Russians aren’t coming
Aug 6 2007 // Global firefighter claims U.S. Forest Service stonewalls on Russian aid while U.S. wildfires burn While the Southeast’s largest wildfire in over a century was still smoldering in Georgia after burning 903 square...
Despite firefighting prowess, the Russians aren’t coming
Aug 6 2007 // While the Southeast’s largest wildfire in over a century was still smoldering in Georgia after burning 903 square miles, a fresh conflagration reared its ugly head in California and an American pilot from Virginia...
Despite firefighting prowess, the Russians aren’t coming
Aug 6 2007 // While the Southeast’s largest wildfire in over a century was still smoldering in Georgia after burning 903 square miles, a fresh conflagration reared its ugly head in California and an American pilot from Virginia...
Report: Inadequate Safety Controls Led to Fatal N.C. Plant Explosion
Aug 2 2007 // Inadequate safety controls for chemical reaction hazards led to an explosion at a North Carolina chemical plant that killed one worker and injured 14 others last year in Morganton, federal safety investigators said...
Feuer Named to New Post as CEO of Marsh U.S. Business
Aug 1 2007 // Marsh Inc. announced the appointment of Mark Feuer as chief executive officer of its U.S. business. In addition to his new responsibilities, Feuer will continue to lead Marsh’s U.S. Middle Market and Small Commercial...
Fleming to Head Business Development at Cunningham Lindsey U.S.
Jul 31 2007 // John Fleming has been appointed vice president and director of Business Development and Marketing for Dallas-based independent insurance claims services firm Cunningham Lindsey U.S. (CLUS), the company announced. Fleming,...
What is Future of Shrinking U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission?
Jul 30 2007 // The Consumer Product Safety Commission could soon shrink to the point where it can’t effectively protect the public, veteran Commissioner Thomas Moore says. Many employees at the agency responsible for overseeing the...
Ala. Outdoorsman Facing $1 Million Judgment Apparently Flees U.S.
Jul 30 2007 // Edmond H. “Eddie” Smith IV, a flamboyant Alabama outdoorsman who was fitted with an electronic monitoring device and faces an order to pay more than $1 million in an insurance fraud case, has fled and may be in...
Ala. Judge Appoints Prosecutors in Katrina Insurance Case
Jul 30 2007 // A federal judge appointed two veteran Birmingham, Ala., attorneys to prosecute a prominent Mississippi attorney and his law firm for criminal contempt in a Hurricane Katrina insurance dispute. In an order made public July...
Neb. Firm Recalls Beef, Buffalo Suspected to Have Dangerous E-Coli
Jul 27 2007 // A Hastings company is recalling about 5,900 pounds of ground beef and buffalo products distributed in Nebraska and Colorado because they could be contaminated with a dangerous strain of E. coli, the government said...
