All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 10 2019 // Connecticut public health officials say they are now investigating five cases of lung disease in state residents possibly related to the use of e-cigarettes or vaping products.The state Department of Public Health on...
Aug 26 2019 // One General Agency (OGA) has acquired the renewal rights to the book of business previously owned by Oklahoma City-based Acton Inc. (Acton).Acton President Eric Acton will be joining the OGA staff. One General Agency...
Aug 19 2019 // One of 86 people who were killed in the deadliest wildfire in California history has been identified.The Butte County Sheriff’s office said on Friday it positively identified the remains of 68-year-old Judith Sipher...
Aug 16 2019 // Renaissance Alliance Insurance Services, a membership alliance for independent insurance agencies, has announced that two Miami, Fla.-based independent insurance agencies have recently joined the Alliance.Gil &...
Jul 23 2019 // A shipping business in Ohio says two workers died after they were trapped in a silo filled with grain.The workers became trapped Friday morning inside the silo operated by The Andersons in Toledo. A Toledo fire department...
Jul 10 2019 // 3M says it is expanding an investigation of possible chemical contamination around its north Alabama plant in Decatur.WAAY-TV reports the company issued a statement Monday saying it’s looking at old landfill sites in...
Jun 25 2019 // Detectives from the California Department of Insurance have arrested Ameer Almassou, Bariq Aleyada, and Ziad Jaber Jaber for allegedly stealing more than $22,000 from auto insurers by filing fraudulent insurance claims....
Jun 11 2019 // A small plane crashed on New York’s Long Island on Saturday, killing the man and woman on board, authorities said.The Federal Aviation Authority said in a statement that the single-engine Beechcraft A36 plane crashed...
Jun 10 2019 // A subway car has derailed in Boston, sending nine people to the hospital.Local emergency officials said none of the injuries are life-threatening. Officials with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said the...
Jun 7 2019 // Five Delaware residents whose water supply was contaminated by chemicals linked to health issues ranging from cancer to infertility are suing companies that manufactured the chemicals.The News Journal of Wilmington reports...
Jun 6 2019 // Two new London Market model clauses to help underwriters manage cyber losses have been published by the International Underwriting Association (IUA).The wordings have been developed in order to address issues of...
May 30 2019 // Three men have been convicted in a trip-and-fall scheme that recruited low-income people and the homeless to defraud New York City-area businesses and their insurance companies.Prosecutors say a federal jury in Manhattan...
May 17 2019 // More than a week after a cyberattack hobbled Baltimore’s computer network, city officials said Wednesday they can’t predict when its overall system will be up and running and continued to give only the broadest...
Apr 11 2019 // Two Texas companies have been indicted by Travis County grand juries in separate cases involving alleged workers’ compensation premium fraud.The Texas Department of Insurance reported that Amer Haurani of Ambassador...
Apr 3 2019 // An explosion and fire at a chemical plant northeast of Houston left one person dead and two battling for their lives, just two weeks after a blaze at an oil storage facility caused thousands of gallons of petrochemicals to...
Mar 6 2019 // Experts say the red tide that plagued Florida’s coastline for 15 months is one of the five worst toxic algae events in the state’s recorded history.State lawmakers from southwest Florida met with scientists on...
Mar 4 2019 // The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office says one of three workers injured at an MIT building construction site has died.The Cambridge Fire Department tweeted Thursday that temporary support beams fell on the...
Feb 28 2019 // Two commuter trains traveling in opposite directions collided with a vehicle on the tracks in Westbury in Long Island, N.Y., killing all three occupants in the vehicle before one of the trains derailed and tore into a...
Feb 21 2019 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by two Pennsylvania boys and an environmental group seeking to stop U.S. President Donald Trump from rolling back regulations addressing climate change, saying the court does not...
Feb 11 2019 // One-third of Himalayan glaciers will melt by the end of the century due to climate change, threatening water sources for 1.9 billion people, even if current efforts to reduce climate change succeed, an assessment warns.If...