When Thomas Jeffery visits states like California, he likes to take some time out to drive around and take a hard look at the conditions and the landscape. As a scientist, Jeffery feels this helps put first-person observations into his …
A California construction worker died from a fall after a railroad bridge he was cutting collapsed and pulled him down to a freeway, authorities said. Okesene Faasalele, 59, of Long Beach, was attached to the bridge over state Route 91 …
The New Mexico Court of Appeals has ruled that a worker’s employer and its insurer must pay for medical marijuana for treating the employee’s chronic pain from a job-related back injury. The court in May upheld a decision by a …
A jury has ruled that Snow King Resort in Wyoming was not at fault for a 7-year-old’s 2009 tumble from a ski lift. The final judgment stated that Glenn and Leya Oswald would recover nothing from the case, and the …
The wife of a man who was driving a Porsche sports car that crashed and killed actor Paul Walker is suing the automaker, alleging it designed a faulty vehicle. The wrongful death and negligence lawsuit was filed in mid-May in …
Delaware lawmakers are expected to act quickly on recommendations from a state task force aimed at lowering workers’ compensation insurance rates. The task force presented lawmakers a report on May 15 proposing that workers’ compensation medical costs to be trimmed …
XL Group has named Michele Sansone as president of its North America property insurance business and head of its global risk engineering division, XL GAPS. Reporting to Joseph Tocco, chief executive of XL Insurance’s North America property/casualty unit in New …
The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has proposed new regulations to oversee private equity and investment firms’ acquisitions of insurance companies, especially acquisitions of annuity companies, in the state. DFS said the proposal to enshrine enhanced policyholder protection …
Employers in Virginia who fail to provide workers’ compensation insurance for their employees will be assessed, beginning July, a civil penalty of up to $250 per day for each day of noncompliance, subject to a maximum penalty of $50,000, plus …
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy recently told a crowd of U.S. and international regulators that when it comes to insurance regulation, states are “here are stay” and that the states – not the federal government – will have the last …
