All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 13 2012 // Belinda Williams was preparing to go to bed in her beautiful Texas limestone house embedded in the lost pines of Bastrop when she looked out her window and saw a huge orange glow. She woke her husband and told him they...
Aug 9 2012 // A $10 million federal lawsuit claims Honolulu police used excessive force in restraining a man who suffocated. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Tuesday Tassa Torres filed a lawsuit on behalf of her brother Aaron Torres. The...
Aug 2 2012 // When a company’s sales numbers lag, its sales executives often blame the compensation package and take steps to change the way they reward their sales employees. In the meantime, finance executives view sales force...
Jul 23 2012 // Yellowstone and Stillwater county commissions in Montana have declared drought disasters in their counties. Officials say low rainfall and warm temperatures have created conditions that one farmer says are not usually seen...
Jul 6 2012 // Yellowstone and Stillwater county commissions in Montana have declared drought disasters in their counties. Officials say low rainfall and warm temperatures have created conditions that one farmer says are not usually seen...
May 17 2012 // Two workers were hurt in an explosion at a hydraulic fracturing tank site in south Texas early on Wednesday, a sheriff’s dispatcher said.U.S. workplace safety regulators cited the company that owns the site, Vann...
May 8 2012 // Some two dozen independent insurance agencies will host job fair events next week in the Pittsburgh, Penn., region. The agencies said they are looking to fill jobs in customer service and sales. The agencies are planning...
May 7 2012 // Almost $3 billion of the $3.2 billion Alabama insurers paid out to their auto, home and business policyholders in 2011 for catastrophe losses can be traced directly to the tornadoes, hail and thunderstorms that swept...
Apr 24 2012 // State health officials have cited three Massachusetts hospitals in the past six months for turning patients away from their emergency rooms, including one case when the person died en route to another...
Apr 20 2012 // Almost $3 billion of the $3.2 billion Alabama insurers paid out to their auto, home and business policyholders in 2011 for catastrophe losses can be traced directly to the tornadoes, hail and thunderstorms that swept...
Apr 16 2012 // There’s never a shortage of studies, statistics and polls to read, or write, about. And they all seem designed to get the reader to look at things another way.They are also designed to get you to scratch your head...
Apr 11 2012 // Two strong earthquakes in the Indian Ocean, located off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, have triggered tsunami warnings across the region.The US Geological Survey (USGS) reported the first quake at 2:38...
Apr 9 2012 // The Buckner Co. named Ryan Loftin, Jeremy Stucki and Micah Zabriskie to the Salt Lake City, Utah-based firm’s executive ranks. Loftin will work out of the firm’s Salt Lake City, Utah office, while Stucki and...
Mar 20 2012 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) has filled two key management positions. Brent Toups is the company’s new business unit manager for large accounts and U.S. Longshore and Harbor Workers’...
Mar 5 2012 // Three people who believe they were targeted by a private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World while they were in the United States are considering suing his company in U.S. courts, a source...
Mar 5 2012 // When Jessica Scorpio, 24, began her quest for insurance for Getaround.com, a peer-to-peer car sharing organization, she ran into a few closed doors.“I definitely spent my whole 22nd year banging on insurance...
Feb 23 2012 // A man who was born with half a left arm is suing Starbucks for failing to hire him as a barista.Eli Pierre sued the company in San Diego, Calif. two weeks ago for unspecified damages. Pierre says that during a Feb. 1...
Feb 22 2012 // Salvage workers have found four more bodies in the submerged Costa Concordia cruise liner, bringing the confirmed number of dead to 21 on the ship that ran aground and capsized off the Italian coast last month, authorities...
Feb 21 2012 // Jane Taylor was managing a women’s clothing store in downtown Christchurch a year ago when the earthquake struck. She was dug from the rubble within minutes with horrific injuries — her vertebrae were crushed, her...
Feb 17 2012 // Five Star Healthcare, a division of Crump Insurance Services, has added an insurance facility to provide coverage for managed care service providers.The product consists of a single-policy solution providing multiple...