Van Nuys, Calif.-based Momentous Insurance Brokerage Inc. announced that David Oliver, former managing director of the Entertainment practice of a large Los Angeles-based insurance brokerage, will join the firm. Oliver has more than 28 years of entertainment insurance risk management …
Mount Redoubt Volcano, 106 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, erupted explosively more than 10 times this week, sending ash skyrocketing as high as 65,000 feet into the air. The eruption of Redoubt poses a threat to national and international aviation …
Chris Hall has been appointed chief financial officer at Quincy, Massachusetts-based Arbella Insurance Group. Prior to this promotion, Hall played a leadership role in developing a more sophisticated expense management system and long-term planning procedures at Arbella. Hall joined the …
The failure of a century old earthen canal in northern Nevada that sent flood waters into hundreds of homes on a frigid night in January 2008 was only the beginning of a nightmare for a rural irrigation district. The flood …
Posit Science, a brain fitness company, announced today that it has extended its relationship with auto insurer Allstate. The companies began working together six months ago in a program to determine whether brain fitness exercise software could be deployed to …
A lawsuit filed by a property owner against an architect alleging professional negligence and seeking purely economic damages is not barred by the economc loss doctrine, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled. According to court documents in Flagstaff Affordable …
Officials in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania officials say a tornado could have cause the destruction to five trailer homes in Clay Township. Dave Wiker, the county’s emergency services shift supervisor, says three people suffered minor injuries Sunday afternoon but had no …
Just as the Red River began retreating from Fargo, N.D.’s hastily fortified levees, the city’s tired residents stared down a winter storm March 30 that is expected to bring than a foot of snow and wind-whipped waves that could worsen …
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation’s (IDFPR) Division of Insurance has ordered First Farm Credit Services to discontinue its Patronage Program, calling the program an “improper rebate.” The insurance division said the action resulted from a Professional Independent …
The Texas Senate has approved two measures aimed at reducing drunk-driving fatalities in Texas. According to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Texas was second only to California in 2007 in traffic fatalities as a result of alcohol. …
