CANTON, Miss. (AP) — A medical helicopter that crashed in a wooded area in Mississippi reported “a flight control problem” shortly before a Monday crash that killed all three people on board, federal authorities said. The pilot was going to …
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Over the past decade, there’s been a dramatic increase in reconstruction costs, according to Trish Hopkinson, head of 360Value at Verisk. The 10-year analysis examined residential and commercial reconstruction costs between October 2014 and October 2024. National residential reconstruction costs, including materials and retail labor, increased 63.7 percent in the past ten years. Between October…
Cable outlet Newsmax Media has paid $40 million to settle allegations it defamed Smartmatic by reporting false claims that the voting machine company helped rig the 2020 U.S. election for Joe Biden over Donald Trump, according to a regulatory filing. The companies settled privately last year, but the amount was disclosed in a Newsmax investor…
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom will on Tuesday hear arguments to overturn a judgment that could cost Britain’s financial industry billions of pounds in fresh legal costs and potential customer compensation. The Court of Appeal ruled in October that it was unlawful for lenders to pay commissions to motor dealers without a customer’s…
A construction company was fined more than $430,000 for California labor violations that resulted in unpaid wages, overtime and other violations. The state’s Labor Commissioner’s Office secured the settlement to return unpaid wages and damages to 86 carpenters employed by the Howood Company Inc. on construction projects in San Diego and San Bernardino counties. The…
Several residents of Los Angeles who were affected by the deadly Palisades wildfire sued city authorities over claims that municipal utility power lines ignited the fire, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. The suit cited a Washington Post article dated January 12, in which the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power told the newspaper…
The Massachusetts seven-year statute of repose for medical malpractice claims does not shield professionals against separate acts of negligent treatment that allegedly occurred in the years after a disputed medical event more than seven years ago. The ruling came in a case where a doctor argued that the “definitely established event” in the malpractice claim…