Progressive Corp. Chairman Peter B. Lewis, the billionaire who turned a company founded by his father into one of the largest U.S. auto insurers, has died. He was 80. Lewis died Saturday at his home in Coconut Grove, Florida, after …
A Delaware judge has ruled for owners of the Delaware City oil refinery in lawsuit over insurance coverage involving the deaths of two workers who suffocated inside a tank. The judge granted summary judgment this week to Premcor Refinery Group, …
The patients, most of whom were on Medicaid and Medicare, came into the medical offices of Jose Katz for checkups and consultations. The vast majority would leave with false diagnoses of coronary artery disease and debilitating angina and orders to …
The lawyer for a Florida couple has dropped an appeal of a New Jersey texting while driving ruling. Attorney Stephen Weinstein represents a couple who each lost a leg in 2009 when their motorcycle was struck in New Jersey by …
ExxonMobil estimates that the March oil spill in an Arkansas subdivision has caused more than $70.5 million in damages for the company, according to documents recently filed with the federal government. The figures were reported in an updated accident report …
Tom Hughston, CEO of insurance brokerage Roach Howard Smith & Barton in Dallas, Texas, was recently named a member of the Assurex Global board of directors at the 2013 Global Conference and Shareholders’ Meeting in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Assurex …
Dan May has already found a location to temporarily set up his law office and his daughter’s art gallery that were destroyed by a tornado that swept through Kokomo, Ind., but he’s concerned about what other tenants will do in …
State officials now say that at least 900 homes in Illinois were either destroyed or badly damaged by the tornado outbreak on Nov. 17. And that figure is likely to grow. Patti Thompson is a spokeswoman for the Illinois Emergency …
A woman who sued Sanford Medical Center for malpractice for a 2007 surgical procedure that was aborted should not be granted another trial, the South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled. Lisa Lewis sued Sanford after an anesthetist mistakenly attached a …
A day before he was scheduled to give sworn testimony about his use of performance-enhancing drugs, Lance Armstrong reached a settlement on Nov. 20 with an insurance company that was seeking $3 million in performance bonuses it paid him from …
