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The state of Louisiana has spent more than three years and over $1 million in taxpayer money to fight a lawsuit that claims three death row inmates are exposed to dangerous heat levels in their cells. A possible low-tech solution … Source: Claims Journal

The total number of bike thefts in six major cities across Canada increased 31 percent between 2014 and 2015, according to home insurer Square One. Edmonton had the greatest year-over-year increase in bike theft, with thefts more than doubling. Bucking … Source: Claims Journal

The U.S. government, facing rising firefighting costs as blazes rage more frequently and with greater intensity across the West, wants Montana’s largest utility to compensate it for a 2010 wildfire near Canyon Ferry Lake east of Helena. Over three days … Source: Claims Journal

Workers are building a stone wall around a Walt Disney World lake where an alligator killed a toddler earlier this summer. Disney officials told the Orlando Sentinel for a story published Sunday that the barrier wall is part of the … Source: Claims Journal

Free Testing of New Training in Claims Communication and Negotiation Rising Tide Partners (formerly Insurance Learning Systems) announced an invitation to claims organizations to register their adjusters for complimentary seats at a beta release of The 360° Adjuster, its new … Source: Claims Journal

Relatives of 100 people killed in a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire and survivors are upset that the site is a stop in “Pokemon Go.” The Associated Press learned of the Pokestop when visiting the site in West Warwick last … Source: Claims Journal

One of five people charged in a deadly house explosion that devastated an Indianapolis neighborhood has reached a plea deal weeks before his scheduled trial, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Gary Thompson, 45, agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit … Source: Claims Journal

With nearly 400,000 employees expected to retire from the insurance industry workforce within the next few years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, its incumbent on carriers to consider the ways in which they communicate with and recruit … Source: Claims Journal

Business Insurance – a well-known industry publication for 49 years, has been abruptly shut down by parent company Crain Communications. The final issue of Business Insurance came out on Aug. 1. The publication’s website, its businessinsurance.com, and the Business Insurance … Source: Claims Journal

General Motors Co. has put two civil trials over its defective ignitions behind it without a loss. A third trial started Tuesday in what could be one of its toughest cases: a Texas teenager arrested for manslaughter in a death … Source: Claims Journal