Assurant, Inc. has expanded its new private flood insurance to Texas homeowners. Assurant Primary Flood Insurance, introduced in Florida last month, offers structural coverage up to $800,000 and up to $250,000 in contents coverage, at competitive rates that include no …
Authorities say a doctor in Tuscaloosa, Ala., has been indicted on drug trafficking charges and faces hundreds more after a two-year investigation into his practice. The West Alabama Narcotics Task Force says in a statement Dr. James Fullerton Hooper was …
CNA has appointed Barbara Sandelands as senior vice president, Commercial Underwriting Services. In this newly created role, she is responsible for driving the overall strategic direction and general management of underwriting services. Sandelands joined CNA from Chubb, where she held …
The physician who used a non-FDA-approved bone cement during a woman’s spinal surgery and the company that ran an illegal test market to promote the dangerous product should be held accountable for her death, a lawyer for the woman’s daughter …
Airbnb has sued the city of San Francisco over a new law requiring short-term rental companies to remove unregistered hosts from their websites. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the company’s suit filed in the U.S. District Court of Northern California …
A railroad crossing in southern Colorado where five family members, including three young girls, were killed when an Amtrak train slammed into their minivan had been targeted for safety improvements for years. The rural crossing near Trinidad, about 15 miles …
Tennessee state workplace safety investigators are looking into the death of a contract employee at the M&M Mars plant in southeastern Tennessee. Multiple media outlets report that the worker for Cleveland-based Custom Mechanical Contractors died at the plant on June …
RLI Insurance Company’s RLI Executive Products Group has launched a new cyber liability insurance product. RLI’s cyber liability insurance offers both first and third party coverage options to protect medium-to-large sized firms against financial losses and damages resulting from cyber …
Several box cars derailed and were engulfed in flames following a freight train collision in the Texas Panhandle on Tuesday. Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Bryan Witt says the accident occurred in the morning near the town of Panhandle, …
Authorities say the Detroit fire department responded to a string of 17 suspected arson fires that burned over a roughly 12-hour period. Chief of Arson Patrick McNulty tells the Detroit Free Press the first fire was reported about 8 p.m. …
