All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 27 2018 // An explosion has injured three workers at a company in Virginia that makes custom machinery.News outlets report the employees were hurt Wednesday in the explosion at Thomas Industrial Fabrication in Woolwine, Va. Patrick...
Jul 27 2018 // California recently enacted a sweeping new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which is likely to have broad implications for organizations providing services to, or collecting data from, California...
Jul 26 2018 // Two Washington state women have been sentenced after pleading guilty to committing insurance fraud, the state insurance department announced.The sentencing is the result of an investigation conducted by the Criminal...
Jul 25 2018 // Two International House of Pancakes (IHOP) franchises in southern Illinois will pay $975,000 and furnish other relief to settle a systemic sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Jun 29 2018 // After Hurricane Harvey inundated David Bush’s Richmond, Texas, home with 20 inches of rain, he knew he wanted to rebuild but was worried about how his property could be protected from the next big storm.So, Bush came...
Jun 28 2018 // Authorities say three people were hurt, one critically, at a Manhattan construction site when a mini crane rolled over and fell from the fourth floor to the street below.Officials said it happened Monday morning while...
Jun 27 2018 // Two workers have been killed by 800-pound slabs of countertop material that fell on them while being unloaded from a trailer in New York.The Niagara County sheriff’s office in New York says it appears 11 slabs of...
Jun 25 2018 // Two people were injured when a North Carolina Highway Patrol helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff at a patrol facility in Raleigh.Highway Patrol First Sgt. Mike Baker told reporters the helicopter was about 6 feet in...
Jun 20 2018 // Two leading U.S. property/casualty insurance carrier trade groups are talking about merging.The American Insurance Association (AIA) and the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) said their respective...
May 9 2018 // A Tesla car crashed and caught fire in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Tuesday, killing two people, local police said on Wednesday.A third person in the Model S sedan was taken to a hospital, the Miami Herald reported late on...
May 3 2018 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.It depends on your definition of “value”. If we’re talking about market value—which is generally the price a buyer is willing to pay for a...
Apr 23 2018 // Three men found guilty in a murder-for-hire scheme in Delaware have been sentenced.News outlets report 46-year-old Ryan Shover, 53-year-old Michael Kman and 55-year-old Paul Disabatino are the last of four men sentenced in...
Apr 20 2018 // Five New York residents have been arrested in a staged slip-and-fall accident scheme that attempted to defraud New York City-area businesses and their insurance companies of more than $31.7 million.Peter Kalkanis, Bryan...
Apr 16 2018 // In today’s commoditized market, growing the business isn’t just a recommendation — expanding a roster of high-value clients is a necessity for all agencies. But where to start?First and foremost, agencies...
Apr 16 2018 // In today’s commoditized market, growing the business isn’t just a recommendation — expanding a roster of high-value clients is a necessity for all agencies. But where to start?First and foremost, agencies...
Apr 12 2018 // Authorities say three highway workers were struck and injured on an eastern Pennsylvania interstate. Officials said the accident happened Tuesday afternoon in a construction zone where they were patching potholes in the...
Mar 16 2018 // Two men pled guilty in federal court for their respective roles in a scheme to commit insurance fraud by arson.Dudley Bledsoe, age 63, of Hanover in Wyoming County, West Virginia, and Ricky Dwayne Gleason, age 54, of Peach...
Mar 9 2018 // Two more South Carolina counties have sued major drug companies because of opioid abuse cases.Media outlets reported that Greenville and Spartanburg counties have sued drugmakers, pharmacies, distributors and doctors. The...
Mar 7 2018 // One problem with self-driving cars is people.The Los Angeles Times reported that of six crash reports filed in California so far this year, two involved a person attacking a robot car. Both incidents happened in San...
Mar 1 2018 // As many as two-thirds of the 29 U.S. commuter railroads may not meet a deadline to install an anti-crash technology by the end of the year, according to a report by a government watchdog seen by Reuters.The report by the...