Mental injury or brain changes caused by a mental stimulus that resulted when the trooper was told he had committed a fatal error, do not fit the comp law's requirement for physical injury or occupati

Florida's new property insurance law, enacted last week, includes a provision to allow primary insurers to purchase additional reinsurance from the state catastrophe fund at cheaper prices than they w

At issue is a report by the non-partisan Latham, N.Y.-based Fiscal Policy Institute, which said that a growing number of workers are "misclassified by their employers as independent contractors in an

With insured losses at a record $40 billion and counting, Hurricane Katrina's impact continues to reverberate 18 months after the monster storm hammered the Gulf Coast. State Farm and Mississippi

Even though a federal judge rejected a proposed State Farm class-action settlement for Mississippi homeowners with storm-surge damage from Hurricane Katrina, attorneys on all sides of the dispute

A federal judge who ruled that a jury could impose punitive damages on State Farm for its mishandling of a Hurricane Katrina claim, has decided that the $2.5 million award should be reduced to $1 mill

He said that in his opinion, the damages the panel assessed were almost 12-times the amount of compensatory damages, and a more appropriate assessment was a sum between four- and five-times the

U.S. District Court Judge L.T. Senter Jr. said in a Friday ruling that besides failing to justify attorneys' fees for the class-action settlement, the proposal lacked information on a multitude of