Archive for March 2015

April showers bring May flowers but it also brings the potential for water in your basement. One of the worst experiences a homeowner can have is a backed-up sewer or drain filling the basement with foul-smelling water and sewage. Water … Source: Claims Journal

Pop quiz: What percentage of drivers have brushed or flossed their teeth behind the wheel? While it’s crazy to think that anyone would floss their teeth while cruising down the highway, it’s just one distraction that people admitted to in … Source: Claims Journal

The following is about infrastructure. Don’t nod off just yet. To be specific, it’s about pavement – basic, boring road surface. In the six decades since Interstate 70 began to creep across Missouri, how we view pavement hasn’t changed much. … Source: Claims Journal

Transportation officials in Georgia are mapping the state’s interstate system to identify problematic guardrails that need to be removed. WALB-TV reports about 2,000 breakaway cable terminals that should be removed have been identified after a survey of the state’s interstate … Source: Claims Journal

A chairlift at a Maine ski resort stopped and then began sliding backward down the mountain Saturday, prompting frantic riders to jump off and injuring seven, officials and witnesses said. The accident at Sugarloaf Mountain Resort happened five years after … Source: Claims Journal

Tired of trying to remember a different password for each of your online accounts? Or worried about re-using the same password too many times? You’re not alone. Tech experts agree that traditional passwords are annoying, outmoded and too easily hacked. … Source: Claims Journal

The Director of State Courts in Wisconsin says medical malpractice claims hit a record low last year. The number of medical malpractice lawsuits fell to 84 last year from 140 in 2013. In 1999, there were 294 suits filed. The … Source: Claims Journal

The U.S. Geological Survey is expected to release a new hazard map for earthquakes in Oklahoma. The Oklahoman reports that data collection has continued with the help of the Oklahoma Geological Survey after the state recorded more earthquakes of a … Source: Claims Journal

The same weather pattern that made the West warm and dry and the Northeast cold and snowy has contributed to keeping the rest of the U.S. relatively free of tornadoes so far this year. In the first two months of … Source: Claims Journal

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Nautilus Insurance Group, an E&S and specialty lines carrier and a member company of W. R. Berkley Corp., has announced two changes to the management team of the organization. Michael J. Kilgas, who has served as senior vice … Source: Claims Journal