California Insurance Broker Pays Off Lawsuit With Buckets of Coins August 8, 2014 By Robert Jablon A California-based insurance broker settled a lawsuit with a Los Angeles man by dropping off buckets full of thousands of...
Smartphones Not All That Security Smart; Major Threats Revealed August 8, 2014 Security researchers revealed two separate threats last week they say could put up to 90 percent of the world’s 2...
U.S. Fire Prevention Budget Tapped to Fight Summer’s Wildfires August 8, 2014 The U.S. Forest Service will soon have to scale back some projects designed to help prevent wildfires so that it...
Smith Promoted to Mississippi Fire Coordinator August 8, 2014 Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance and State Fire Marshal Mike Chaney has promoted Deputy Fire Coordinator Brad Smith to the position...
Georgia Agent Surrenders License August 8, 2014 A Gwinnett County insurance agent currently under investigation by the state insurance commissioner’s office has agreed to surrender his license...
South Carolina Allows Use of School Bus Camera Videos in Ticketing August 8, 2014 By Seanna Adcox A new South Carolina law means drivers who illegally pass a stopped school bus in South Carolina are more likely...
Yelp Faces Suit By Shareholders Questioning Quality of Online Reviews August 8, 2014 By Dan Levine Yelp Inc. and its executives have been accused in a lawsuit of selling more than $81 million in stock while...
Hawaii Spared Hurricane As Iselle Weakens to Tropical Storm August 8, 2014 By Brian K. Sullivan, Isis Almeida and Lynn Doan Hawaii escaped its first hurricane strike in 22 years as Iselle was downgraded to a tropical storm just before making...
Chance of Below-Normal Hurricane Season Now Up to 70% August 8, 2014 Forecasters with the National Weather Service raised the likelihood for a below-normal season in their most recent Atlantic hurricane season...
Typhoon Halong Nears Japan; Saturday Landfall Expected: AIR Analysis August 8, 2014 According the catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, strong winds and heavy rainfall from Typhoon Halong have already arrived on Japan’s...