All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 20 2021 // Two former Maryland football players have each reached $200,000 settlements in lawsuits accusing former coach DJ Durkin of running a program that subjected athletes to an abusive environment.The Maryland Attorney...
Dec 17 2021 // In a property insurance claims dispute, the statute of limitations’ clock starts ticking on the date of the loss, not the date the insurance company allegedly breached the contract, a federal court has decided in a...
Dec 6 2021 // Two women have been charged with insurance fraud, one in connection with expired car insurance and one for providing false cancer treatment invoices, the North Carolina Department of Insurance announced. Clarlese Hobdy,...
Dec 2 2021 // Ten Maine coastal communities on Casco Bay are banding together in hopes of being able to help prevent future flooding.Over the next two years, the Casco Bay communities will invest a half million dollars on projects that...
Dec 2 2021 // Bristol Myers Squibb Co. was sued on Wednesday by four employees who said the drugmaker refused to grant them religious exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccination requirement, and threatened to fire them on Dec. 6 for...
Nov 24 2021 // Three people were killed and six people, including five children, were seriously injured after a fire broke out in an East Baltimore rowhouse early Monday, fire officials said.News outlets report that firefighters called...
Nov 24 2021 // Cyber attacks are continuously evolving, and companies that don’t stay educated about the space could be caught off guard, experts say.“A lot of times, I think cyber has this type of mentality that it’s...
Nov 23 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by The Hanover Insurance Group.The holiday season has arrived, which, among other things, means greater risks for small businesses as they prepare for a boost in sales, beginning...
Nov 17 2021 // Eight residents of a nursing home in Connecticut have died during a coronavirus outbreak while 89 residents and employees have tested positive for the disease, nursing home officials say.The outbreak at the Geer Nursing...
Nov 12 2021 // Two New Jersey men and a Florida man pleaded guilty to running a health care fraud scheme involving orthotic braces.Nicholas Defonte, 73, and Christopher Cirri, 63, both of Toms River, New Jersey, and Pat Truglia, 53, of...
Nov 8 2021 // At least two investigations and one civil lawsuit were underway on Sunday into the deadly stampede during rap star Travis Scott’s Astroworld music festival that killed at least eight people and injured dozens in...
Oct 28 2021 // Three teenagers accused of starting a fatal apartment building fire in Maine have been charged with felony murder, officials said.Two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old were charged last month with arson, but those charges...
Oct 20 2021 // A pair of tornados have been confirmed in western Pennsylvania over the weekend, forecasters said. The National Weather Service says an EF-0 tornado with estimated winds up to 85 mph touched down in the town of...
Oct 20 2021 // Industrial conglomerate 3M Co on Tuesday said it had agreed to pay about $98.4 million to settle claims that it contaminated the Tennessee River with toxic chemicals.3M agreed to resolve a lawsuit by environmental group...
Oct 4 2021 // Two men who authorities say took advantage of people struggling with opioid addiction by signing them up for false insurance policies and sending them to dubious out-of-state treatment facilities have been indicted on...
Oct 4 2021 // “We are family to our employees, accountable to our clients, teammates to our carriers and generous to our communities. Those values inform all our decisions,” said Higginbotham CEO Rusty Reid, describing the...
Sep 23 2021 // Two men were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after a fall from a second-story balcony at a Maryland home, authorities said.Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesperson Jason Blake said the men fell at a...
Sep 13 2021 // MILAN — Two leading Generali investors are ready to push to replace current CEO Philippe Donnet if the top Italian insurer’s board fails to reach an accord to keep him in the job, three sources close to the matter...
Sep 3 2021 // The National Weather Service tentatively confirmed the touchdown of a tornado in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County early Wednesday afternoon as the remnants of Hurricane Ida moved across the state.Meteorologist Ray...
Sep 3 2021 // Two electric company employees contracted to work with Alabama Power were killed while working on storm restoration, according to the company.WBMA-TV reports that the Pike Electric workers were on duty near an intersection...