Police say a suspect is in custody after a third fire in one week damaged a Super 8 motel in Virginia. Hanover fire Battalion Chief William Jones tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the third fire was reported just after 1 …
A jury has ruled in favor of a Massachusetts couple and awarded them nearly $2 million in a medical malpractice suit they brought against St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester. Laura Ginisi claimed in the suit that misdiagnosis of several strokes …
New Jersey is moving toward making polluters pay the full cost of cleaning up offshore spills. A bill to remove a cap on liability for oil and other spills into coastal waters was passed by the state Senate on Monday …
The state Fire Marshal’s office says an unknown malfunction in the engine compartment of a car parked under a house sparked a fire that caused $800,000 in damage to the home and surrounding dwellings. The fire broke out Friday evening …
A federal jury in New Jersey has found a California man guilty of selling bogus liability insurance policies. The jury returned its verdict against 62-year-old Ronald Allen of North Hollywood, Calif., following a seven-day trial in Camden. Prosecutors say Allen …
Allstate Insurance has notified the Texas Department of Insurance that it will increase homeowner rates — some by almost 10 percent. About 450,000 homeowners covered by Allstate Texas Lloyds will see a rate increase of 5.4 percent, effective Jan. 20. …
California and federal emergency responders have signed a plan designed to respond to a disastrous earthquake in Southern California. A similar state-federal pact was developed two years ago for dealing with a quake in Northern California. More than 1,500 emergency …
A new study ranks Hawaii’s public health emergency preparedness in the bottom half of states, citing in part the inability to adequately staff public labs in the event of an infectious outbreak among the state’s failures. Hawaii fulfilled seven of …
Members of the World Trade Organization are showing new energy and determination to reach a global trade deal but must now abandon fixed positions to clinch the agreement, the head of the WTO said on Tuesday. WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy …
You can lie to taxpayers or you can lie to creditors, European authorities are learning, but doing both at the same time is very hard. The proposed policy that current senior creditors to troubled states will not face losses on …
