All the headlines from our Garage Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 24 2024 // Tiffany Francis USG Insurance Services, Inc. hired Tiffany Francis as an associate producer/broker with their garage division team. Francis, based in Alpine, California, entered the insurance industry eight years ago. She...
Jul 25 2024 // NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A freight locomotive ran off the end of its track and smashed into the side of a garage Monday at a home in the city of Niagara Falls.No one was injured, but the impact flattened the brick...
Jul 3 2024 // A man was killed when some fireworks exploded at his Pennsylvania home, state police said. Michael Cross, 55, of Union City, was working in his garage when the blast occurred around 10:15 a.m. Sunday in the Erie County...
Apr 11 2024 // April 11, 2024 — As urban spaces continue to evolve and expand, the importance of efficient parking infrastructure cannot be overstated. Yet, for property owners and managers, the cost of insuring parking structures...
Apr 1 2024 // An 11-year-old Maine boy crashed a snowmobile and was killed while attempting to park in his family’s garage in Chapman, game wardens said Tuesday.The boy, who was not wearing a helmet, sped across a field and...
Mar 12 2024 // FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal investigators determining why a Florida condominium tower partially collapsed three years ago, killing 98 people, said Thursday there were many faulty support columns in the tenant...
Jul 27 2023 // The collapse of a New York City garage in April was caused by the negligence of the owners of the building, according to State Farm, which is suing them to recover $1.5 million in payments to the garage’s customers...
Jun 15 2023 // Nationwide General Insurance has avoided payment of a dog bite claim filed by a homeowner it insured who ran a firearms business out of his garage.A federal district court for Alabama ruled that the business exclusions in...
May 19 2023 // A construction worker was killed and another was missing Friday morning after a massive fire broke out in an upscale business and residential area of Charlotte, North Carolina. News outlets reported that the five-alarm...
May 1 2023 // 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...
Apr 20 2023 // A parking garage collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan’s Financial District, killing one worker, injuring five and crushing cars as concrete floors fell on top of each other like a stack of pancakes, officials...
Sep 28 2022 // A heavy equipment operator doing demolition on the eighth floor of the Government Center garage in downtown Boston died on March 26, 2022, when the partially demolished floor collapsed, and the 11,000-pound excavator and...
Mar 28 2022 // A portion of a downtown Boston parking garage that was being demolished collapsed Saturday evening, killing a construction worker, officials said.Boston Emergency Medical Services confirmed one person was killed and a...
Feb 18 2022 // State Farm filed a $1.2 million subrogation claim against Tesla in Indiana federal court on Feb. 16, alleging negligence and strict product liability over a fire that damaged an insured’s car and residence.Two State...
Jan 18 2022 // Southern Insurance Underwriters, a managing general agency based in Atlanta, has named Whitney Griffith new underwriter for garage insurance. Griffith, who will be in SIU’s Alpharetta, Georgia, office, has more than...
Jan 3 2022 // A New Year’s Day explosion and fire leveled one Minneapolis garage, set another one ablaze and sent a man to the hospital with serious injuries.The Star Tribune reports that Just after 11 a.m. Saturday, fire crews...
Dec 1 2021 // A garage fire near Denton, Nebraska has caused more than $1 million in damage to several classic cars and motorcycles. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the fire broke out Saturday, Nov. 27 in a detached garage....
Mar 8 2021 // One construction worker was killed and a second was critically injured in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Wednesday morning when a section of the concrete stairwell in a city-owned parking garage collapsed, authorities...
Dec 16 2020 // Four people were injured on Dec. 14 in an explosion and fire at a school bus garage in Waterloo, Iowa, authorities said.The explosion occurred at the School Bus Sales garage shortly before 1 p.m. Four people were taken to...
Sep 21 2020 // In the middle of June, I broke my ankle in a boogie boarding accident. (It happened in my garage but there was a boogie board involved so I’m sticking to that story because it makes me sound cooler.) As it turns out,...