Claims made insurance policies provide coverage for claims first made during the policy period. So if the claim is made during the policy period, there’s coverage, right? Not so fast; there’s a catch. Under most claims made policies, the claim also has to be reported...
A search of a felon’s home led Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators to a stash of more than 500 firearms, marking one of the largest seizures from a person forbidden by law from possessing guns, the Los Angeles Times reports. Investigators raided the home of...
Four teenage inmates escaped from Louisiana’s juvenile prison in Monroe over the weekend in a jailbreak so violent one guard was airlifted for medical treatment, The Advocate reports. The escape late Friday marked the second in a week — and at least the fourth in...
Until the last few decades, state legislatures set statutes of limitation for most felonies at five years or less, though murder usually had no deadline. The FBI lists felony sexual assault as the second-most-serious offense, but for decades, little changed in statutes of limitations for...
The number of reported sexual assaults aboard airplanes has grown by nearly two-thirds in recent years, the FBI says. Sixty-three cases of in-flight sexual assault were reported to federal authorities in the last fiscal year, up from the 38 cases reported in the 2014 fiscal...
The results of a recent Bureau of Justice Statistics study on recidivism “are of historic importance. The reality is grim indeed,” says Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Speaking to the National Sheriffs’ Association in New Orleans, Sessions said the study found that 83 percent of 60,000...