Scott A. Adamsons joined InsurBanc as vice president of sales and business development. The Farmington, Conn.-based company also hired Marie R. Rider to be vice president and director of marketing. Adamsons will direct the sales and business development efforts, focusing …
Motor Mouths: Distracted drivers talking on cell phones. Turtle Racers: Slow drivers in the fast lane. Piggybackers: Pushy drivers who tailgate. Wacky Weavers: Drivers who weave through traffic to gain one or two car lengths. Gap Snatchers: Obnoxious drivers who …
Barbaro, the colt that was seriously injured during the Preakness two weeks after winning the Kentucky Derby, is insured. Owner Roy Jackson said the cost of the insurance jumped after Barbaro won the Florida and Kentucky Derby, but he is …
California State Treasurer Phil Angelides defeated Controller Steve Westly in a bitter primary election battle to be the Democratic Party’s gubernatorial candidate. Angelides had 48 percent of the vote, to Westly’s 43.3 percent, according to Secretary of State Bruce McPherson’s …
State regulators have reached a milestone in their efforts to streamline product regulation, with a centralized approval system for certain life and financial products on the verge of becoming reality. After three years of lobbying, 27 states have signed onto …
Insurance brokers and agents could be required to verify odometer readings for new and renewal automobile insurance policies under amendments the California Department of Insurance (CDI) has proposed to its personal automobile rating factor regulations. CDI has proposed amending Section …
The rural Stanislaus County community that’s grabbed unwanted headlines as home of convicted killer Scott Peterson and former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit now has another unflattering distinction: The nation’s car theft capital for the third year in a row. Modesto …
The Delaware Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that directors of the Walt Disney Co. did not violate their fiduciary duties in the hiring and firing of former Hollywood superagent Michael Ovitz. In affirming a 174-page ruling last year …
Weather-related stressful events can cause harm to mental health Do earthquakes and hurricanes affect mental health? Florida State University sociologists in Tallahassee have found that some South Floridians who survived Hurricane Andrew suffered mental health problems many years later, a …
The Pacific coast states of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, face the greatest tsunami hazard, but West Coast states could see the funding to prepare …
