A vast swath of North America from the Great Lakes to the West Coast is at risk of blackouts this summer as heat, drought, shuttered power plants and supply-chain woes strain the electric grid. Power supplies in much of the …
The largest wildfire burning in the United States was heading toward mountain resort towns in northern New Mexico on Wednesday, prompting officials to issue another set of warnings for more people to prepare to evacuate as the fast-moving fire picks …
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A relatively rare East Coast earthquake centered just northeast of South Carolina’s capital city jolted large numbers of state residents awake early Monday, rocking the Southern state at a preliminary 3.3 magnitude, authorities said. There were …
DETROIT —Assisted driving systems installed in Tesla Inc., Hyundai Motor Co. and Subaru Corp. vehicles failed to avoid head-on collisions in testing done by AAA, though Tesla’s Autopilot system did slow the vehicle to a walking speed before striking an …
BEIJING —China’s Tibet Airlines said all passengers and crew had been evacuated from an Airbus A319 plane that caught fire after an aborted takeoff in the southwestern city of Chongqing on Thursday. There were no deaths and only minor injuries …
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the failure and inaction of U.S. air safety regulators to implement several proposals contributed to the cause of a 2019 fatal helicopter crash that killed seven in Hawaii. The seven-seat Airbush AS350 B2 …
If insurers and employers want to deny a workers’ compensation claim because it was filed too late, they shouldn’t inadvertently pay a latent medical bill, which extends the clock under the quirks of North Carolina’s comp statutes. And the Industrial …
A three-judge New Jersey Superior Court appellate panel has ruled that an intra-family liability exclusion in a Travelers (St. Paul) auto insurance policy amounts to a “hidden pitfall” and is unenforceable because it was not cited on the policy’s declarations …
Lessors with hundreds of jets stuck in Russia are preparing for what one said would be a “vigorous” pursuit of insurance claims while maintaining discreet contact with some customers after Moscow blocked the jets from leaving. The loss of over …
A new study found a greater density of dangerous leaks from gas pipelines in U.S. urban areas where there’s a higher proportion of people of color, raising questions about the unequal distribution of risks that comes with using the highly …