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Tragedy hit the highway again today as yet another commercial bus ride turned fatal. Four are dead and 50 have been taken to 11 area hospitals for injuries after a motorcoach headed for New York’s Chinatown from North Carolina ran off the highway and flipped upside down in Virginia on I-95, according to the Richmond [...]
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The hits just keep on coming for Toyota. On the heels of a $16 million government fine and the potential for billions of dollars in loses after pending litigation shakes out, State Farm has asked Toyota to pay them back for any claims related to the unintended acceleration fiasco. Other insurers, including Allstate, are expected [...]
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For risk managers and others looking at the Toyota recalls as an ongoing lesson in corporate crisis response, seeing the daily headlines about the automaker’s woes is — both figuratively and literally — like watching a car crash. Sure, in some ways, Toyota has handled the situation adequately, and its rebounding stock price and recent [...]
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In a move that will undoubtedly make America’s roads a safer place, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood issued a full ban on texting while driving any bus or truck. The ban, effective immediately, states that truck and bus drivers who text while driving commercial vehicles may be subject to civil or criminal penalties of up to [...]
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