Archive for April 2018

Southwest Airlines Co. in recent days hasn’t found any additional signs of the metal fatigue on jet engine fan blades that led to last week’s fatal accident, though an executive said one cracked blade was discovered during reviews last year. … Source: Claims Journal

The widow of maverick automaker John DeLorean has alleged in a lawsuit that a Texas company illegally received money from the “Back to the Future” movies that used his iconic car. The sleek, angular car with gull-wing doors known simply … Source: Claims Journal

Lawyers for a British tourist who claims he was badly hurt taking part in an illusion by Las Vegas Strip headliner David Copperfield told a judge on Wednesday that they’ve found three other people who were injured in Copperfield shows … Source: Claims Journal

Last year was the second-costliest year for disasters since 1970, according to a new analysis from reinsurance firm Swiss Re AG. Global economic losses from these events reached $337 billion in 2017, behind only 2011’s total losses, and less than … Source: Claims Journal

Passcodes Kept on Sticky Notes, Recipe Cards and Slips of Paper How many different passwords do you have for your smartphone, tablet or computer? Where do you keep the passcodes that you can’t remember? Almost half of U.S. consumers use … Source: Claims Journal

TrueMotion, INRIX Partner to Deliver Contextual Driving Data to Insurers TrueMotion, the leading platform for smartphone telematics, announced a strategic partnership with INRIX, the global leader in connected car services and transportation analytics, to provide contextual driving data to auto … Source: Claims Journal

A single foodborne outbreak could cost a restaurant millions of dollars in lost revenue, fines, lawsuits, legal fees, insurance premium increases, inspection costs and staff retraining, a new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health … Source: Claims Journal

More than one hit-and-run crash occurs every minute on U.S. roads, according to new research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. These resulted in 2,049 deaths in 2016 – the highest number on record and a 60 percent increase … Source: Claims Journal

David Copperfield insisted Tuesday he knew of no one being injured during 20 years of performing a signature vanishing act at the center of a lawsuit by a British tourist who claims he was seriously hurt in a fall during … Source: Claims Journal

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is proposing to allow owners of homes destroyed by storms and bought out by the government to rebuild on the same flood-prone land. Currently, FEMA offers to buy homes that have been repeatedly damaged by … Source: Claims Journal