The Trump administration on Friday sided with employers in a Supreme Court case over the rights of workers to bring class action lawsuits against companies, court documents showed. Reversing a position staked out earlier by the Obama administration, which backed …
A Florida city says a former employee stole money to get a butt lift. A Gainesville city report released Wednesday said Natwaina Clark stole $93,000 from the city, using $8,500 on the cosmetic surgery. The Gainesville Sun said the report …
North Carolina’s insurance regulator says he’s reached a deal with auto insurers for a premium increase of just over 2 percent instead of the nearly 14 percent average increase companies sought in February. The state Insurance Department said Thursday the …
Orchid Underwriters Agency, LLC, a specialty underwriter of catastrophic coastal insurance, announced that it expanded its Commercial Lines business to two new states, Alabama and Mississippi. The two new states join New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and …
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) says it is financially sound and ready for the 2017 hurricane season after once again securing $4.9 billion in total funding. TWIA is the insurance carrier of last resort for wind and hail policies …
Louisiana lawmakers have ordered physicians to consult a statewide prescription monitoring program before prescribing opioid drugs. The Senate approved minor changes the House had made to Sen. Fred Mills’ bill and sent the legislation to Gov. John Bel Edwards. Edwards …
It’s no secret that Texas yearly suffers from an onslaught of all kinds of weather, particularly hailstorms. And from 2014 through 2016 the state topped the list for the number of insurance claims for hail damage, according to The National …
A bill that preempts local regulations for ridesharing companies in Texas and replaces them with statewide standards has been signed by Gov. Greg Abbott. HB 100, sponsored in the Senate by Georgetown Sen. Charles Schwertner, sets statewide operating standards, including …
An Arkansas man who pretended to be an insurance broker and collected more than $1 million selling fake policies in three states has been sentenced to more than five years in prison, the Arkansas Insurance Department announced. Arkansas Insurance Commissioner …
A Texas attorney on June 5 was issued a 16-count indictment on charges of organized criminal activity, legal misconduct and insurance fraud related to hail claims, according to the Texas Department of Insurance. R. Kent Livesay, an attorney with offices …
