Posts by Y@DminG

Outside of insurance attorneys, plaintiffs’ lawyers and some doctors, few people in Florida may be familiar with what are known as letters of protection. But critics say the instruments, in which doctors agree to take a share of the judgment … Source: Claims Journal

Insurers are about to pay state-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corp. (BSC) $22.48 million for its vessel that was hit by a missile during fighting in Ukraine, two officials involved said on Tuesday. The expected settlement is one of the first shipping … Source: Claims Journal

NEW YORK (AP) — The patients’ eyes were painfully inflamed. They could sense light but could see almost nothing else. A doctor called one case the worst eye infection he’d ever seen. It was the beginning of a national outbreak … Source: Claims Journal

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – A Florida judge rejected a prosecutor’s impassioned plea Monday, saying he would not reconsider his acquittal of a nursing home administrator in the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma knocked out the facility’s … Source: Claims Journal

GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — The crash of a truck into a group of 20 bicyclists on a bridge that killed two and injured nearly all the rest of a Phoenix area cycling group appears to have been an accident, police … Source: Claims Journal

SEATTLE (AP) — A company that operates a century-old hydroelectric dam near Mount Rainier National Park and its chief operating officer each pleaded guilty to a single criminal count Monday in connection with a spill of synthetic field turf and … Source: Claims Journal

Inflation, social inequality, environmental concerns, political polarization and the Russia-Ukraine war are among factors that are leading to an increase risk of civil unrest around the world, according to two reports released by industry analysts in the past month. A … Source: Claims Journal

Is it possible to predict exactly where the wind will blow? How about where it will blow 30 years from now? The First Street Foundation, a nonprofit that works to define and communicate risks posed by climate change, says it … Source: Claims Journal

Ohio residents suing Norfolk Southern Corp. will get an extra day to inspect rail cars that spilled a toxic chemical during a train derailment this month before the company clears the crash site, according to a deal struck by the … Source: Claims Journal

CHITTOOR, India —Much of the fire safety equipment at Apple supplier Foxlink’s facility in southern India was not functional, a government official told Reuters on Tuesday, a day after a blaze halted production at the maker of iPhone charging cables. … Source: Claims Journal