Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead announced the state is hiring a veteran public health official from New Mexico to continue the push to reduce Wyoming’s workplace fatality rate. Dr. C. Mack Sewell, who has served as New Mexico’s state epidemiologist since …
Massachusetts officials said that insurers so far paid out $200 million in claims related to devastating tornadoes in western and central Massachusetts that occurred on June 1, 2011. The Massachusetts Insurance Division said in its May 22 report that the …
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and state lawmakers are seeking to close a loophole in the state’s drunk-driving law (Melanie’s Law) that was brought to light in a recent court decision. Responding to a Supreme Judicial Court decision issued on …
Sufficient capacity remains available in the insurance and reinsurance markets to meet the demand for coverage prior to the approaching U.S. hurricane season, according to Fitch Ratings. Early forecasts for the 2012 U.S. hurricane season are that the North Atlantic …
Massachusetts drivers are starting to see higher auto insurance rates, four years after they tumbled when the state opened the market to more competition. Many of the state’s largest auto insurers have raised rates in each of the past two …
It’s no surprise that pharmaceuticals are one of the leading drivers of workers’ compensation costs in California, but a study issued late last month shows the skyrocketing cost of drug testing is becoming a major cost driver in the system. …
Flood Band-Aid “The National Flood Insurance Program has been barely hobbling along with a Band-Aid approach — extending it for short periods of time. Reaching an agreement to allow the Senate to fully debate this on the floor and to …
Flexibility, Balance, Respect and Accessibility Are Important, Studies Find There’s a lot of talk in property/casualty insurance circles these days about how the industry is going to replace the huge wave of baby boomers that are beginning to retire and …
Sarasota, Fla.-headquartered property/casualty insurer FCCI Insurance Group (FCCI) recently expanded into Maryland and has hired Jeanine Ferritor as a senior marketing underwriter to develop FCCI’s independent agency relationships in the new state. Ferritor will be based in Ellicott City, Md. …
A federal judge sided with Georgia State University on a range of copyright infringement claims filed by three publishing houses in a ruling that administrators said could set an important precedent for how educational data is used by schools. Senior …
