Louisiana’s insurer of last resort may have illegally spent more than $1 million in public money on trips to Bermuda, fishing excursions, other travel, meals and entertainment, a state audit has found. The insurer’s former head, Terry Lisotta, may have …
From “Happy Days” to “The Perfect Storm” is how one Florida insurance executive describes her state’s turbulent and defining years between 2003 and 2007 – and she isn’t talking just about the devastating hurricanes that wreaked havoc for homeowners and …
The Main Street America Group has launched its Personal Auto MVP (multivariate program) in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Personal Auto MVP is Main Street America’s proprietary rating program designed to provide greater pricing flexibility for personal auto policies. It features predictive …
American laboratories handling the world’s deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily as more labs across the country are approved to do the work. No one …
Starting this month, hundreds of Americans will be getting “Dear Taxpayer” letters telling them they’ve been selected for a special audit by the Internal Revenue Service. The 13,000 chosen at random this year — and similar numbers in subsequent years …
Officials must try harder to resolve China’s product safety problems, especially at lower levels that oversee manufacturing, the chief of a special panel in China says. In a meeting to evaluate the progress of a four-month nationwide safety campaign that …
The New York City Police Department has been operating a camera that scans the license plates of cars passing just blocks from ground zero, a newspaper reported this week. The camera is an example of the kind of technology the …
First comes the “wind shower.” Wearing overalls and rubber boots, employees at Fusheng Food Co. in Qingdao stand in a narrow room as air jets in the walls blow away any dust on them. They wade through ankle-deep disinfectant and …
A federal appeals court panel suggested this week that New York City is not immune from liability in 8,000 cases accusing it and others of failing to properly protect workers cleaning up the World Trade Center site after the 2001 …
Several states say they will challenge the Bush administration in federal court over its new rules that block the expansion of a health insurance program for children from low-income families. Arizona, California, Illinois, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York …
