Tornado warning sirens chased lawmakers to the statehouse basement, a semitrailer was blown from a roadway and homes and an airport building were damaged as severe storms battered parts of Illinois and Indiana on late on May 30. Illinois lawmakers, …
Dallas-based Bridge Insurance Partners, a national commercial property and casualty agency, announced three executive leadership positions. Jeff Turner was named managing principal, and Tommy Saxon and Ryan Perry have been designated principals. All three formerly held leadership positions in Higginbotham …
Ron Peterson, the Oklahoma lawmaker who blocked health insurance mandates after getting thousands of dollars in contributions from insurance companies, is only one of a growing list of Republican House leaders opting to give up their legislative posts. Peterson, R-Broken …
A bill that would raise mandatory minimum auto insurance levels stalled in a Senate committee when its chairman declined to break a tie vote. Louisiana law now requires car and truck owners to have “10-20-10” minimum motor vehicle liability coverage: …
A federal judge in New Orleans says insurance companies don’t have to tell clients who buy the maximum federal flood insurance about additional coverage available from other companies. U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi dismissed the Cameron Parish School Board’s lawsuit …
A federal appeals court says people whose houses were destroyed by Hurricane Rita’s wind and floods cannot make insurance companies pay the full value of their policies. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal upheld a ruling by a federal …
An 18-year-old International Coal Group employee died in West Virginia’s third fatal coal mining accident of the year. State Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training spokeswoman Jama Jarrett identified the victim of the May 30 accident as Adam Lanham. …
Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner dispatched California Department of Insurance fraud investigators and staff to the Summit Fire zones near Santa Cruz, Calif. to provide assistance to survivors as they face the daunting task of recovery. They will advise fire survivors …
The Motorist Insurance Group recently announced it has promoted Joel Kratzer, CPA, to vice president of the accounting division after the retirement of longtime Vice President Jim Vermillion. Vermillion’s retirement and the promotions of Kratzer and Tom Brock were effective …
A scaffold holding three painters at a Bayonne, New Jersey industrial complex collapsed Saturday, killing two of them and seriously injuring the other. The men were painting a fuel tank at the International-Matex Tank Terminals when the collapse occurred at …
