The Oklahoma House of Representatives has passed a bill that extends high school apprenticeship programs to include sophomores who are at least 16 years old. It includes a provision that allows school districts to obtain liability insurance to protect students …
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a construction company to reimburse a workers’ compensation claimant for marijuana that was prescribed to relieve his back pain caused by a work injury. The high court rejected M&K Construction’s argument that …
Ohio Mutual Mendi Riddle will be joining Bucyrus, Ohio-based insurer, Ohio Mutual, as vice president of Sales effective May 10, succeeding Howie Barber who is retiring in July. Riddle has served in a number of senior sales and product roles …
Sierra Specialty Sierra Specialty, program specialist, managing general agency and wholesale insurance brokerage, has appointed Vicky Dith as a broker and underwriter specializing in construction insurance. Dith is located in Clovis, Calif. Dith will be working with Sierra Specialty’s commercial …
Florida became one of the first states in the country last month to pass and sign into law a statute directed toward providing immunity to businesses for COVID-19 related lawsuits. To be clear, the law does not prevent all COVID-19 …
A fire over the weekend at a BNSF Railway terminal in western Nebraska is estimated to have caused $3 million in damage to the facility. The fire broke out early in the afternoon on April 11 at the BNSF terminal …
The Fire Victim Trust, established to pay California wildfire victims on July 1, 2020, has received 40,000 claims questionnaires representing more than 70,000 claimants and roughly 250,000 individual claims, according to the trustee. Justice John K. Trotter (Ret)., the trustee, …
Marion Piggee, Jr., 68, of Los Angeles, Calif., was arraigned on seven counts of insurance fraud after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance revealed he was allegedly underreporting employee payroll by nearly $6 million to reduce his business’s …
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara today announced two reappointments to the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Governing Committee. Lara appointed Mitch Steiger and Diana Rich to the WCIRB Governing Committee for another two-year term. The committee sets policy, oversees …
Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King on Monday launched his 2022 election campaign. King is a Republican. He was the Doraville police chief and had no insurance experience when Gov. Brian Kemp named him commissioner in 2019 to succeed John Beck. …
