Miscellaneous

• Smith County Home Fire Kills Woman

  Shannon Weidemann | September 13, 2007 10:43 PM | 0 CommentsMcAllen, TX

  A retired teacher from Chapel Hill High School was killed in a house fire on Tuesday morning. Her neighbor tried to rescue her but she suffered from extensive burn injuries. Four fire departments were needed to put out the fire. Fire investigators say the house was fully engulfed when they arrived on scene. Molly suffered severe burns all over her body and was pronounced dead at the...

• Insurance a Scam Game for many Insurers

  Tedford Taylor | September 13, 2007 4:29 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  The insurance industry's drive for profit has overwhelmed its obligation to policyholders, and insurance companies abide only by the first commandment of insurance--Thou shalt pay as little and as late as possible.Tension between insurers and their customers has long existed, but it was the 1990s that saw insurance companies looking for ways to systematically streamline the process to increase...

• Fisherman Killed in the Gulf of Mexico

  Shannon Weidemann | September 13, 2007 4:21 PM | 0 CommentsCorpus Christi, TX

  A maritime accident in the Gulf of Mexico killed a fisherman at the end of August. The fishing boat was about 12 miles south of South Padre Island, Texas when the accident occurred. His body was recovered by the United States Coast Guard. It is believed the victim was doing maintenance work when a cable broke, struck him -- and he ended up tangled in the rigging.Another person on the boat...

• Family Injured in Corpus Christi Mobile Home Fire

  Shannon Weidemann | September 13, 2007 3:40 PM | 0 CommentsCorpus Christi, TX

  A mobile home caught on fire in Corpus Christi and injured all four residents that were sleeping inside. It took fire rescue crews 40 minutes to put out the mobile home fire. All four people were taken to a local hospital for treatment. Three of them were in critical condition. Flames lurched from the threshold of the mobile home in the 500 block of Rosemary as firefighters arrived about...

• Insurers Cheat Customers, Report Record Profits

  Tedford Taylor | September 13, 2007 3:09 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL

  In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, insurers reported their highest ever profit, $73 billion, up 49 percent from the previous year. With 60 million customers paying more than $50 billiion in premiums per year, homeowners are often surprised to find out that insurers won't pay the full cost of rebuilding their damaged or destroyed home. The insurance companies routinely refuse to pay market...

• Victoria's Secret Sued for Injury of Customer

  Scott Kappes | September 13, 2007 2:24 PM | 0 CommentsGalveston Bay, TX

  The retail giant for unmentionables, Victoria's Secret, has had a lawsuit filed against them as result of an incident that happened at the Parkdale Mall location in Beaumont. Tamma Douglas has filed a personal injury claim against the company alleging that she was injured by a fragrance bottle that an employee knocked off the top shelf while trying to get something else down. Douglas says that a...

• Boy Killed By Pit Bull Mauling

  Beth Janicek | September 13, 2007 10:30 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  On August 31, 2007, a 6-year-old boy was mauled to death by his family's pit bull. The mother was outside of the house and the dog and child were inside. This dog attack came a day before the new Texas law, Lillian's Law, went in to effect. The law will allow felony charges to be filed against the owner of a dog that kills or seriously injures someone. The law has a punishment of prison...

• Cholesterol Lowering Drugs Top Sellers in U.S. Market

  Courtney Mills | September 13, 2007 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  According to an article published on Reuters today, the cholesterol-lowering drug category of statins, the most popular of which is Lipitor by Pfizer, was responsible for the Lion's share of prescription drug sales in 2004. While cholesterol-lowering drug tended to be the most profitable for drug companies, according to federal estimates, patients spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $9...

• Income from Mobile Home Park did not Stop Compensation Benefits

  Brent Adams | September 13, 2007 8:49 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  The North Carolina Court of Appeals has upheld workers' compensation benefits awarded by the North Carolina Industrial Commission to an injured iron worker. This is true even though the iron worker earned $25,000.00 in rental fees from his mobile home park after his injury. In addition, the worker had income from a tobacco allotment.If an injured worker has wage earning capacity, he or she is...

• Countrywide Employees Sue Company

  James Sabatini | September 12, 2007 10:37 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Some Countrywide Financial Corp. employees have sued their employer. The employees are claiming they suffered heavy losses in their 401k retirement accounts after the company failed to warn them about the depth of its financial troubles.The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, seeks class-action status and names as defendants Countrywide Chairman and Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo...