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• The Insurance Hoax

  The authors explored how the property insurance industry has changed over the last couple of decades and adopted a policy of consistently underpaying policyholders. The authors used internal documents from major insurance companies as well as first person sources to show how insurance agencies are handling claims in ways that pressure policyholders to accept low payments.

  Tags: insurance; business; wild fires; corporate greed; property insurance; insurance agency; fraud

  By David Dietz; Darrell Preston

  Bloomberg News (New York)

  2007

• Gauging Fire Service

  The Record finds that California's fire service is largely unregulated and disregarded by residents until they have to dial 911. The reports showed that among San Joaquin County's 21 fire districts protecting nearly 200,000 people, budgets, training, equipment and performance vary wildly, from firefighters who do not know how to drive fire engines or refuse to wear federally required protective clothing to firefighters trained as paramedics.

  Tags: Schuyler S.J. County districts vary in training and response

  By Ann Schuyler

  Record (Stockton, Calif.)

  1995

• Wild West Legacy: Ruger Gun Often Fires if Dropped, but Firm Sees No Need for Recall

  The Wall Street Journal reports that "more than 600 .. men, women and children (were) wounded in accidental firings reported to the company and linked to the same line of guns. Over 40 died; scores were severely wounded. The resulting lawsuits - hundreds of them - have dogged Ruger for decades.... Ruger stopped making the guns in 1972, but the lawsuits and accidents continued..."

  Tags: product liability business ethics lawsuits Consumer Product Safety Commission Strum; Luger & Co. recalls revolvers

  By Erik Larson

  Wall Street Journal (New York)

  1993