Orange, Calif.-based Word & Brown General Agency has named Don Goldmann vice president of national sales. Goldmann’s career in the insurance industry spans more than 25 years. Most recently, he was national director of sales for CIMS, a general agency …
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Kings Country District Attorney Charles Hynes and New York State Superintendent of Insurance Howard Mills have reported the takedown of “Operation Brownsville Auto.” The base of this operation was an NYPD-run salvage yard …
After deciding it was safe to land in a snowstorm, the pilots of Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 overran the zone where the plane needed to touch down, losing hundreds of feet of runway that would have helped stop the jet …
An outbreak of E. coli bacteria that has sickened 11 or more people, four critically, has been linked to a dairy that was ordered by Washington state in August to stop selling raw milk. Dee Creek Farm in Woodland, Wash., …
An Amtrak train collided with a semitrailer in southeastern Utah, killing the truck driver, injuring several Amtrak passengers and derailing the front wheel on the train’s lead engine, authorities said. The California Zephyr was carrying 119 passengers from Emeryville, Calif., …
Unitrin Specialty to date has paid or settled over 92% of our claims from the hurricanes that hit Louisiana. How have we settled claims so quickly? Within hours of the disaster, Unitrin Specialty created a claims catastrophe response team to …
A sulfurous steam plume, hundreds of miniature earthquakes and a new swath of ash on Alaska’s snowy Augustine Volcano have scientists alerted to a possible eruption in the next few months. The 4,134-foot volcano hasn’t shown such signs since it …
In October, 2003, when the Florida Legislature approved an updated workers’ compensation program, legislators “drew a line in the sand,” according to Andrew Sabolic, chief of the Florida Bureau of Employer Compliance. Tanner Holloman, director of the Division of Workers’ …
U.S. Sen. Trent Lott is suing his insurance company over his beachfront Pascagoula home, which was leveled by Hurricane Katrina. The law office of Lott’s brother-in-law, high-profile plaintiff’s Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, filed the federal lawsuit Thursday on behalf of Lott …
A.M. Best Co. announced that it has affirmed its Syndicate Rating of “A” (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a+” of Lloyd’s Syndicate 2001, managed by Amlin Underwriting Limited (AUL). Best also affirmed the ICR of “bbb+” of Amlin …
