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The U.S. government’s road safety agency is urging automakers to speed up replacement of potentially dangerous Takata airbag inflators. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a statement Friday that Heidi King, it’s top official, has met with 19 … Source: Claims Journal

Ever since Harvey Weinstein became a top story, the discussion of sexual harassment and assault has become a topic that has exploded across the Internet and other media, resulting in scores of allegations and reports regarding other celebrities, public figures, … Source: Claims Journal

After nearly 23 years, the cities of Waldo and Lawtey are no longer designated “Traffic Traps” by AAA. AAA recently announced that it had approved a request from the cities to remove the designation after they “made significant improvements” to … Source: Claims Journal

Security services company ADT received alarms at a burning Topeka, Kansas, home with a woman inside but didn’t alert authorities about the deadly fire, according to a lawsuit. The wrongful death lawsuit was filed Wednesday on behalf of Elizabeth Frost’s … Source: Claims Journal

A communications company said Thursday that a subcontractor was working “on site” before an explosion that killed a Wisconsin firefighter this week. Authorities have said a crew punctured a natural gas main in downtown Sun Prairie on Tuesday, resulting in … Source: Claims Journal

Hundreds of tourists who booked coveted overnight trips on tribal land deep in a gorge off the Grand Canyon will have to reschedule after heavy flooding forced evacuations and shut down the area for at least a week. Abbie Fink, … Source: Claims Journal

Officials with counterculture festival Burning Man say they won’t install fences around major burns at this year’s event in the northern Nevada desert, nearly a year after the death of a man who ran into flames of a towering wooden … Source: Claims Journal

Mitchell Announces Strategic Integration Agreement With AirPro Diagnostics Mitchell International, Inc., a technology, connectivity and information provider to the property/casualty claims and collision repair industries, announced a strategic integration and joint marketing agreement with AirPro Diagnostics, LLC. to integrate AirPro’s … Source: Claims Journal

Meat and poultry processing workers often perform the same motions for hours at a time: pulling tenders off of chicken carcasses, tearing out their internal organs or trimming cuts of meat. These repetitive and forceful jobs, performed on long shifts … Source: Claims Journal

Nearly two dozen women who claimed asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talcum powder caused their ovarian cancer were awarded $550 million in damages Thursday by a St. Louis jury in the first case against the company that focused on asbestos … Source: Claims Journal