The board of directors of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) have elected two individuals to fill the recently vacated executive positions of vice chair and secretary-treasurer. TWIA public representative member Chandra Womack has been elected vice chair and insurer …
Property Claims Services (PCS), a Verisk subsidiary, has extended the catastrophe loss aggregation methodology, previously developed for use in Japan, to cover more territories in the region. Starting Jan. 1, 2020, PCS will report insured losses from catastrophe events in …
Markel has launched a risk management tool for its cyber policyholders. The new WhiteHaX testing and reporting tool simulates cybersecurity breaches and assesses the readiness of deployed security infrastructure and software. It is designed to be especially useful for small-to-medium …
The Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal says it’s been selected as a federal Fire Prevention and Safety Grant award recipient. The award, totaling $55,000, will allow the state fire marshal to boost its smoke alarm inventory for Operation Save-A-Life …
Specialty insurance broker McGriff, Siebels & Williams (McGriff) has launched an office in Kansas City led by industry experts Stacy Spurgeon, Paula Brennan and Vicky Owens. The team will tackle the new challenges facing transportation companies around compliance, insurance and …
H.W. Kaufman Group has added Richard S. Fusinski to its executive team as chief information officer. He will be based at the company’s headquarters in Detroit/Farmington Hills, Michigan. Fusinski will set and oversee strategy for information technology at Kaufman while …
Federal workplace safety officials have levied $1,591,176 in penalties against a silicon chemical products manufacturer after four employees suffered fatal injuries in an explosion and fire at the company’s Waukegan, Illinois, plant on May 3, 2019 The U.S. Department of …
A 44-year-old Texas oil company worker died after being overcome by poisonous gas at a pump house, and his 37-year-old wife also was killed by the fumes when she went to check on him. The Ector County Sheriff’s Office says …
Jeffrey Manzanares started vaping nicotine two years ago because he thought it would be a safe way to quit smoking. Instead, it almost killed him. The 33-year-old construction worker spent 17 days in a Utah hospital last month when he …
A retired FBI agent described a horrific raid of now-closed body donation facility, recalling a table stacked with severed human legs, heads stuffed in a cooler, and torsos without heads and limbs. Mark Cwynar testified on the opening day of …
