Volkswagen AG failed to report at least one death and three injuries involving its vehicles to a U.S. regulator’s database designed to save lives by spotting possible defects. Lawsuits concerning the accidents, filed over the last eight years, weren’t found … Source: Claims Journal

Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. (BSA)., an employee-owned company that provides claims management and loss control services to employers and employer associations with self-insured and large deductible programs for workers’ compensation and other casualty lines headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., recently named … Source: Claims Journal

Travel via large U.S. commercial airlines is among the world’s safest transportation modes, but airlines may be lulled into a false confidence when they interpret averted collisions and other near-misses as proof that their safety systems are satisfactory, according to … Source: Claims Journal

Investigators will use a deep ocean vehicle to help confirm whether wreckage that searchers found in 15,000 feet of water east of the Bahamas is the cargo ship El Faro that vanished during Hurricane Joaquin. The U.S. National Transportation Safety … Source: Claims Journal

State officials say workers’ compensation insurance rates in Louisiana are likely to drop next year by 2.7 percent. The Department of Insurance and the Louisiana Workforce Commission say the cut was recommended by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. It … Source: Claims Journal

The decades-long nightmare that ruined Marcus Calvillo’s life started when he was a teenager and was wrongly accused of writing bad checks. His driver’s license was later revoked for a slew of unpaid traffic tickets he never received. Then he … Source: Claims Journal

FEMA is encouraging families and communities to take steps now to prepare now for the threat of El Niño. Senior officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hosted an on the … Source: Claims Journal

Shirley Girard recently was employed by Brentwood Services Administrators Inc., headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., as a senior claim representative in the Raleigh, N.C., remote office, according to Jeff Pettus, president and chief executive officer of BSA. In her position as … Source: Claims Journal

This weekend, most Americans are gaining an hour of sleep by turning back their clocks as daylight saving time ends. But, a newly published Cornell study finds, they could stand to lose much more in the time exchange. Examining crime … Source: Claims Journal

A jury decided Wednesday that two utility companies hold most of the liability in one of the largest wildfires in New Mexico’s recorded history. Jurors gave their verdict in Bernalillo following a weekslong trial that centered on whether Jemez Mountains … Source: Claims Journal