A South Carolina man pleaded guilty this week to a federal fraud charge, acknowledging his role in an insurance scheme that cost a mentally disabled man his left hand. Gerald B. Hardin of Cayce told U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie …
People overwhelmingly believe workers’ compensation premiums will rise if no reforms come out of a bill currently in the works in state Legislature to increase benefits for injured workers and reduce waste in the system to the tune of more …
Folsom, Calif.-based EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center) named Sarah Ledbetter as a property & casualty insurance account manager in its Fresno office. Ledbetter’s responsibilities as an account manager will include marketing, negotiations, client program management, and the supervision of account …
Several subsidiaries of Travelers Companies Inc. sued the National Football League and a host of other insurers, seeking to avoid paying to defend the league against a wave of brain injury-related claims by thousands of former players and their families. …
North Carolina state agencies do a poor job communicating with each other to identify employers who are possibly breaking the law because they don’t have workers’ compensation insurance or fail to pay withholding taxes for their employees, a newspaper reported …
New York orange juice futures jumped more than 5 percent on Wednesday after U.S. forecasters warned Tropical Storm Isaac would strengthen into a hurricane and could hit the south coast of citrus-rich Florida by Monday. The National Hurricane Center said …
As college students return to campus to begin the new academic year, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Mike Consedine reminds families to create a “dorm room inventory” for insurance purposes. “Many college students head to campus hauling a costly array of personal …
Connecticut authorities said this week that five subcontracting firms at a large Stamford construction site have been cited for alleged wage violations. The construction site at Stamford’s Harbor Point area is the largest development in the state. It has attracted …
RiskMeter Online, a provider of real-time natural hazard risk reports, has added premium tax assessment data and effective dates to its Kentucky Premium Tax report. This additional information assists insurers in determining if the correct premium tax amounts have been …
Homeowners who live on the shores of Lake Independence near Minneapolis, Minn., say a dairy farm is to blame for turning the lake into a noxious mix of pollutants. Twenty-one individual homeowners and the Lake Independence Citizens Association are suing …
