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California Landslide Halts Rail Service, Homes Evacuated
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — A landslide in Southern California has closed a historic cultural center, shut down rail service in the area and forced the evacuation of nearby residences, officials said. The slope below the ocean-view terrace at Casa … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreNYC Partly Shutters Four Parking Garages After Deadly Collapse
NEW YORK (AP) – After the deadly collapse of a parking structure in lower Manhattan, New York City building officials swept through dozens of parking garages and ordered four of them to immediately shutter because of structural defects that “deteriorated … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreWildfires in Anchorage? Climate Change Sparks Disaster Fears
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Research on a flat spot for air evacuations. Talk of old-style civil defense sirens to warn of fast-moving wildfires. Hundreds of urban firefighters training in wildland firefighting techniques while snow still blankets the ground. This is … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreArrest Made in Minneapolis Mosque Fires that Rattled Muslims
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis police arrested a man suspected of setting two fires that damaged mosques in the city last week as part of what the chief called “an attempt to inflict terror onto our Muslim community.” Police Chief Brian … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreContainers Secured to Shore After Wisconsin Train Derailment
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Crews have secured two container cars that began floating away in the Mississippi River after a freight train derailed in southwestern Wisconsin, officials said Friday. Thursday’s derailment in Crawford County involved two of the train’s three … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreMississippi Tire Plant to Restart After Tornado Damage
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) – A northeast Mississippi tire plant that was damaged by an April tornado is expected to restart production in June. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said this week that it was likely to take several months for … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreRoof Collapse at House Near Ohio State University Injures 14
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Part of a house collapsed and 14 people were injured near The Ohio State University Saturday evening when people climbed onto a roof that was not designed to hold significant weight, authorities said. Columbus Division of … Source: Claims Journal
Read More2nd Lawsuit Filed Against MMA by Former Business Partners
A company that provided hurricane-damage estimates to embattled McClenny Moseley & Associates says in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the law firm owes it nearly $10 million. Those unpaid invoices allegedly owed to Global Estimating Services come on top of … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreFla. Courts Say Plaintiffs Can’t Collect Interest for Late Claim Payments
Two back-to-back federal court decisions may have dealt a lethal blow to recent proposed class actions that sought interest on property insurers’ late claims payments. But the rulings have left some insureds and their attorneys feeling that they’re seeing another … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreSurgeon, Lawyers Sentenced to Prison in Slip-and-Fall Scheme
A New York surgeon and two lawyers are the latest professionals to be sentenced for their roles in a massive massive trip-and-fall fraud scheme between 2013 and 2018 that exploited some of the most vulnerable citizens of the New York … Source: Claims Journal
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