Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) has added a new member agency, Kansas-based Fouts, Davidson, Burks Agency LLC. CAA now has 53 insurance agency members. Fouts, Davidson, Burks Agency LLC. is a family owned and operated insurance agency with offices …
Ohio-based Progressive Corp. has named President and CEO Glenn M. Renwick to the additional role of chairman following the death of previous chairman Peter Lewis. The insurer also said that board member Stephen Hardis has been elected lead independent director. …
Feral hogs in Louisiana are rooting up levees on Jefferson Parish’s west bank, causing damage that could pose a threat to flood protection, officials say. The west bank levee board has enlisted the help of the U.S. Agriculture Department determine …
A Laclede County jury has ordered a Missouri company to pay $28 million to a worker who claimed his lungs were damaged at a compressor plant in south-central Missouri. In the lawsuit, Philip Berger, 56, claimed he developed inflammation of …
Jeff Twitty, an insurance executive with more than 30 years of insurance and risk management experience, has been named market president for the Dallas office of Frost Insurance, the insurance subsidiary of Frost. Twitty has held senior roles with an …
Gilmer, Texas-based All-Star Insurance Group Inc., a full service, independent insurance agency, has opened a new office inside First National Bank in Pittsburg, Texas. All-Star Insurance has appointed Jackson Boyd of Pittsburg as the managing agent for the new office. …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Welspun Tubular LLC in Little Rock, Ark., for two safety and health violations for exposing workers to possible amputation hazards at its Little Rock facility. The proposed penalty …
Under the terms of a consent judgment, a now defunct North Canton, Ohio-based company, Star Air Inc., and owner Robert R. Custer, will pay two Ohio truck drivers $302,000 to resolve a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor …
The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a challenge to part of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law by companies claiming a religious exemption to the requirement that they provide birth control coverage for employees. The justices said today they will …
The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) is pressing on with its effort to resolve the liability problems stemming from collapsed group self-insured trusts. WCB has been taking a multi-pronged approach to tackle the problems in the past few …
