Do you drive a Honda? Do you know if your cars has been recalled? We ask, because the auto maker is tracking down car owners who may need their air bag fixed. Honda’s been expanding a recall on Accords, Civics and several other models for three years now. The company says the airbags are defective and could seriously injure or even kill you. 900,000 Honda owners listen up- your airbag may need a quick fix. In some Hondas the airbag is deploying with too much pressure, essentially exploding the steering wheel, shooting metal fragments at a person. - nbc12.com

It’s going to be a while before things get back to normal for Judy Sanchez and her three-year-old daughter. Last Thursday, a team of FBI agents swarmed her apartment building as part of a massive citywide drug and weapons gang raid. Trouble is, Sanchez lives in apartment 2R. The suspect they were after is in 2F. At 6:04 last Thursday morning, just before Sanchez’ alarm was set to go off, she heard a pounding outside her second floor apartment. - CBS Boston

The fourth quarter of 2011 witnessed a steady amount of customer satisfaction for auto insurance companies, even though there was a larger amount of claims during the period, according to a report from J.D. Power and Associates. It took repair shops 8.5 days to fix vehicles on average during the fourth quarter. This is higher than the third quarter’s figure of 7.8 days, according to the report. However, customer satisfaction was almost identical in both quarters. In the fourth quarter, the rating was 855 on a scale totaling 1,000 points. During the third quarter, the statistic was 854 points. - Insurance Corner

A thin film of oil spread from the Costa Concordia cruise ship as waves battered its wreckage off Italy’s coast Wednesday, adding to fears of an environmental disaster in the area’s sensitive, pristine waters. Authorities were trying to assess how serious and extensive the spread was. Italian authorities also identified a German woman, Siglinde Stumpf, as being among those killed in the Jan. 13 capsizing of the vessel. Stumpf is the 17th person whose body has been identified. Fifteen others are listed as missing. - Bloomberg Businessweek

Preliminary assessments indicate the wind, rain and snow that hit Oregon in mid-January caused an estimated $38 million in damage to nine counties. The Oregonian reported that figure is expected to grow.
Flooding was blamed for two deaths. Hard-hit Marion County has tallied $11.2 million in damage, including about $8 million to bridges in Salem undermined by floodwaters. Red Cross officials estimate that 207 buildings in Salem sustained flood damage. - Insurance Journal

The owner of a Honda Civic hybrid won an unusual Small Claims Court lawsuit against American Honda Motor Co. Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Douglas Carnahan ruled that the giant automaker mislead Civic owner Heather Peters when it claimed that the hybrid could achieve as much as 50 miles per gallon. Peters said the Torrance Small Claims Court commissioner awarded her $9,867 in damages, very close to the maximum $10,000 allowed in Small Claims Court that the Los Angeles resident was seeking. - Los Angeles Times Nation

Florida lawmakers are looking to give regulators and law enforcement officials more flexibility to investigate check cashing companies that may be facilitating fraud in the construction industry. The House Subcommittee on Insurance and Banking yesterday approved HB 1277, sponsored by Rep. Daniel Davis (R-Jacksonville), which is designed to rein-in the use of checking cashing companies by individuals seeking to avoid paying workers’ compensation premiums. - Insurance Journal

They say it’s a game, but it’s really a lot more than that. For football fans, the Super Bowl is every holiday rolled into one, especially when their teams have made the big game. The stuff that dreams are made of. Non-fans have the commercials to look forward to. And for the people living in the host city (Indianapolis this year), it’s even more — a combination of blessing and curse. A staggering capital influx that is only made possible by the horrors that come with it including traffic jams, crowded restaurants and everything else associated with a heavily burdened infrastructure. - Insurance Journal

Washington’s Lynn Kaelin, a survivor of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia, on Wednesday recalled the night when the ship ran aground and started taking on water. She said it was complete chaos, and that the crew lied to the Americans on board. “It was the trip from Hell,” Kaelin said from her home in Puyallup. “It was just like being on the Titanic.” On Jan. 13, Kaelin and her friend had only been on the ship for three hours when they sat down to enjoy dinner. - q13fox.com

An Amtrak train derailed Wednesday morning in Jackson County. The Wolverine Train 351 was headed to Chicago from Pontiac with 68 people onboard when it slammed into a semi-truck that was on the tracks in Leoni Township, near Michigan Avenue and Portage Road. In a statement, Amtrak said the collision caused the train’s engine to tip on its side and two railcars to jump the tracks. The truck was carrying equipment for local oil production. Police said it appears the truck got stuck on the high crown of the crossing. - Click On Detroit