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Update: Italy’s Tax Police Raid Offices of Generali in Probe About Insurance Contracts

Oct 23 2020 // Italy’s tax police raided the offices of state railway Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) and Generali to gather documents in a probe related to the awarding of contracts to the Italian insurer, a document seen by Reuters on...

Ex-Police Chief in Washington Turned Pinup Model Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud

Oct 19 2020 // A Snohomish County, Wash., woman faces two charges of making false or misleading statements to collect more than $67,000 in workers’ compensation benefits from the Washington State Department of Labor &...

Grocery Chain Slow to Report Tampering at One of Its Maine Stores

Oct 16 2020 // It took two months for a supermarket chain to alert police and customers about the discovery of razor blades in fresh pizza dough sold at one if its stores in Maine, a newspaper reported.Product tampering at a store in...

City in Texas Hit with $1M Suit from Black Man Who Police Led by Rope

Oct 13 2020 // A Black man who was led by a rope by two white officers on horseback has sued a southeast Texas city and its police department for $1 million, saying he suffered humiliation and fear during his arrest.A lawsuit filed last...

ATF, Vermont Police Offer $15K to Solve Stowe Arson Fires Causing $4M in Damage

Oct 8 2020 // A series of arson fires in the town of Stowe has prompted the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Vermont police to offer a $15,000 reward for help leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever...

Lawsuit: Omaha Police Used Excessive Force at Protests

Oct 7 2020 // A lawsuit accuses Omaha police of using excessive force when they responded to protests against police brutality and racial injustice in Nebraska’s largest city earlier this year.The American Civil Liberties Union of...

Proposed Virginia Bill Making Localities Responsible for Protest Damage Stalls

Oct 5 2020 // A Virginia General Assembly bill is likely dead for the session that would have held localities accountable for damages caused by protesters if an adequate police response was not provided.Del. Mark Cole, R-Fredericksburg,...

Judge Blocks Trump ‘Secretive’ Commission Report on Police and Civil Justice

Oct 2 2020 // Before a U.S. federal judge on Thursday halted the work of a Trump administration law enforcement commission – saying it had violated public meetings laws – the panel had been warned about shutting out public...

Police Report $1M in Jewelry Stolen from Georgia Kay Jewelers Store

Sep 30 2020 // Police say $1 million worth of jewelry has been stolen from a store in coastal Georgia.WTOC-TV reports the heist took place before dawn Friday at Kay Jewelers in Hinesville. Officers responded to an alarm at the store, but...

Family of Arizona Man Killed in Police Shooting Files $950K Claim

Sep 29 2020 // The family of a Buckeye man who died in a shooting six months ago has filed a nearly $1 million notice of claim against the Buckeye Police Department and Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.The claim alleges that police...

Connecticut Workplace Shooter Says Gun Fired By Accident

Sep 29 2020 // A man charged with wounding his boss and another employee in a shooting at a Connecticut trucking company told police his handgun fired by accident and he only intended to scare his manager, according to an arrest warrant...

Police Say Connecticut Workplace Shooter Extradited, Charged with Assault

Sep 28 2020 // A truck driver accused of shooting his boss and wounding another person outside a Connecticut industrial building was charged Wednesday with assault and other crimes after being brought back from Massachusetts, where...

Two Wounded in Connecticut Workplace Shooting, Suspect in Custody

Sep 24 2020 // A shooter opened fire and wounded two people outside a Connecticut business Tuesday and was taken into custody at gunpoint on a highway in Massachusetts, police said. Both victims were treated at a hospital and...

2 Injured by Minneapolis Police Projectiles During Unrest Suing City

Sep 23 2020 // Two men injured by police during violence that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis are suing the city, its police chief and unnamed officers.Soren Stevenson, 25, lost his left eye after he was shot by police...

Abandoned Vehicles a Common Problem in Omaha, Nebraska, Neighborhoods

Sep 22 2020 // The blue SUV had been parked in front of the Omaha Bike Project near 33rd and California Streets, with its windows down, for more than three months.After multiple calls to the Mayor’s Hotline failed to yield results,...

Owners Find Insurance Inadequate to Cover Demolition of Buildings Destroyed by Riots

Sep 21 2020 // Some commercial property owners whose businesses were torched by rioters are learning that they don’t have enough insurance to clear away the debris.Many property owners in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area purchased...

The Role Insurance Plays in Civil Rights Settlements Against Law Enforcement

Sep 21 2020 // Municipalities, their insurers and risk pools should be heeding the current public re-examination of police and prosecutorial actions taking place across the country, according to an insurance policyholder attorney who...

Louisville Agrees to Pay Breonna Taylor’s Family $12 Million, Enact Police Reforms

Sep 16 2020 // Louisville, Kentucky agreed to pay the family of Breonna Taylor a $12 million settlement and enact a series of reforms as part of the largest police misconduct payout in the city’s history after officers shot and...

Wildfires Grow in Oregon as 500K Evacuated, Death Toll Rises

Sep 11 2020 // Around half a million people in Oregon evacuated as dozens of extreme, wind-driven wildfires scorched U.S. West Coast states on Friday, destroying thousands of homes and killing at least 16 people, state and local...

Court Revives Civil Suit Against Ohio Cops Over Fatal Shooting of Black Man

Sep 10 2020 // A federal appeals court reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit against two police officers in Ohio’s capital city over the 2016 shooting of a Black man by undercover officers.In a ruling issued Sept. 8, a three-judge...