Louisiana insurance policyholders received an additional $4 million in insurance payments in the first half of 2013 as a result of assistance from the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI). Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says these funds are in addition to …
A Verona, Wis., woman is challenging a law that caps malpractice damages against University of Wisconsin doctors at $250,000. A Wisconsin State Journal report says a jury awarded Terri Fiez $1.8 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit against a UW doctor. …
Seminole, Okla., has suffered through eight fires in three years, causing some to fear that the community is losing its history. Since 2010, the town has lost its old Booker T. Washington School, the school’s gymnasium and the historic Grisso …
A little over a year after a fast-moving fire burned most of a huge apartment complex in St. Louis, Mo.’s Central West End, the complex is about to reopen. The massive fire on July 17, 2012, damaged more than half …
Rick Gregory has been selected as director of the Special Investigations Department (SID) at the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). Gregory will oversee 123 employees who work to deter, detect, investigate and prosecute workers’ compensation fraud. The department pursues …
A fire that broke out at Welspun Pipes Inc.’s Little Rock, Ark., facility last year could cost the plant $14.5 million. That’s according to a lawsuit filed by Welspun and Welspun Tubular LLC against its insurance company, Liberty Mutual Fire …
Vermont will become the third state to offer voter registration through its health insurance marketplace later this year. Secretary of State Jim Condos said Monday that he has designated Vermont Health Connect as a voter registration agency. That means Vermonters …
Willis Group Holdings announced an investor conference today in New York City from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT. Willis, which last week reported its third consecutive quarter of strong top line growth, said today’s conference will “focus to the …
Flood maps aren’t due out for Alabama until next December, but the specter of rising flood insurance premiums is undeniable. Congress, seeking to undo the damage done to the National Flood Insurance Program after 2005, changed the policy to impose …
Flash flood waters swept a tour bus with 33 people aboard hundreds of yards down a wash in northwestern Arizona and the vehicle flipped on its side, but no one was injured, officials said. The Las Vegas-bound bus was returning …
