A federal trial over Hurricane Katrina damage ended abruptly with a settlement between the insurance company and the Mississippi couple whose property damage, a jury decided, had been caused by the storm’s wind and should have been covered by the …
A proposed ballot measure would return control of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation bureau to the governor, bypassing a board of directors that now employs the agency’s top manager. The proposal, which was delivered to Secretary of State Al Jaeger on …
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit over a small landscape painting by Paul Gauguin which a buyer said was appraised at millions of dollars above its value by a well-known dealer who had “an ownership interest” in the canvas. State …
Consumer spokesmen want a national group of insurance regulators to toughen its conflict-of-interest policies, in part because of questions raised by last month’s resignation of former North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman. Poolman’s departure is the latest instance of a …
Interested in high net worth families with more cars than drivers, Florida’s Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange or PURE is ratcheting up their auto coverage program. Based on an agreed value policy system, PURE Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer …
Evadne Swift has been promoted to claims manager for California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Oxnard state contracts. Swift joined the organization’s Arcadia, Calif., District Office in 1990 when she was hired as a claims adjuster. She became San Jose District …
BB&T Insurance Services announced plans to expand its metro Atlanta and north Georgia operation with the acquisition of Sidney O. Smith Inc. Sidney O. Smith Inc. currently provides commercial and personal property and casualty coverage to 17,000 clients out of …
General Motors Corp. and the University of Michigan Medical School are working on a new study that will try to guide emergency workers and doctors who respond to car accidents — and develop safer vehicles along the way. Researchers are …
