Jeff Larason, the Massachusetts highway safety director, wants journalists and public officials to stop calling car crashes "accidents," because he thinks that term lets drunk, drugged, or otherwise ...

Mar. 2--The Georgia Supreme Court has adopted the definition of 'accident' an insurance company wants in the case of a 2008 Harris County crash in which one bicyclist was killed and a second severely ...

Australian officials are seeking to change the formal definition of an aircraft accident to clarify uncertainties thrown up by the case of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. In a paper to this week’s ...

Deborah Lewis was on a stepladder, reaching overhead for products to stock shelves at a Lowe’s north of Asheville, when a 30-pound box of nails started to slip from her grasp. At once, Lewis says, she ...

Question: I was getting out of my parked car when I fell and broke my leg. Is this a “car accident,” and am I entitled to accident benefits from my auto insurance company? Answer: To be entitled to ...