Federal investigators have concluded that a lack of company safeguards such as alarms and automatic shutoffs led to a massive...
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New Yorkers would be let in on the secret when their doctor is charged with misconduct under a proposal by...
The state supreme court has set aside a jury’s verdict that the Maine Department of Transportation was partly to blame...
Three U.S. companies that once made lead paint have spent nearly a decade fighting off a lawsuit that could force...
Faced with an unfriendly Congress, the Bush administration has found another, quieter way to make it more difficult for consumers...
The Senate voted Tuesday to extend until 2013 a federal program that insures millions of U.S. homes against floods and...
A small section of a four-story parking deck near SouthPark Mall in Charlotte, N.C. collapsed, but authorities say no one...
Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry’s veto of legislation intended to make it tougher to file some lawsuits was sustained when House...
A federal appeals court in New Orleans agreed to consider whether an antitrust lawsuit that former Louisiana Attorney General Charles...
Louisiana’s insurer of last resort collected $4 million extra in reinsurance from the 2005 hurricanes and, at the suggestion of...