It Figures

$250,000
The minimum liability insurance limits required of home inspectors in West Virginia under a new law that also requires them to be certified by the State Fire Commission. The new law went into effect Aug. 1.

$18 million
The amount a Greenville County, South Carolina jury awarded to a paralyzed woman in her lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. The jury also awarded $3 million to the estate of another woman killed in a 1999 wreck. The jury did not award punitive damages, but found that Ford was negligent and breached its warranty by putting a defective speed-control system in a 1995 Ford Explorer that wrecked on Interstate 385 in December 1999. (AP)

1,100
The number of arrests for auto insurance fraud and staged accidents the Florida Division of Insurance Fraud says it has made since 2000, bringing to a halt more than $36 million in fraudulent PIP claims. In Miami alone, those arrests include 741 patients, 81 clinic owners, 31 doctors, 67 clinic employees and 159 runners.

$1.4 million
The fine levied by Kentucky’s inspector general against the state’s largest center for mentally retarded adults for not correcting health and safety violations, state officials announced.

1-800-951-1275
The number for the telephone hotline established by Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks for state farmers who continue to have trouble with their Federal Crop Insurance claims they filed after disasters in past years. The hot line will be available until Nov. 1.