Yearly Archives: <span>2022</span>

Defining Producer Management: What It Is and Why It Matters

This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Producer management encompasses the administrative process co-owned by licensing, compliance, operations, and legal teams across carriers and agencies, but what does that even mean? And where does the producer lifecycle …

GM Financial to Pay Massachusetts $1.8M Over Alleged Delays in GAP Insurance Refunds

GM Financial, an automobile financing company, has agreed to pay more than $1.8 million to resolve allegations that the company’s business practices violated Massachusetts state consumer protection laws. Attorney General Maura Healey’s office alleged that Americredit Financial Services, Inc., d/b/a …

People Moves: EPIC Adds Lucero in California; CLARA Names Cossio VP of Sales

EPIC has added Juliet Lucero in Newport Beach, California. Lucero will work with schools to identify the benefits strategies to meet short-term and long-term goals, while establishing programs to address the needs of school employees. Lucero was previously assistant vice …

Los Angeles Suing Monsanto, 2 Others for Toxic PCBs in Waterways

The city of Los Angeles is suing Monsanto and two other companies for past and future costs of dealing with contamination of waterways by long-banned chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, the city attorney announced Monday. Long-lasting PCBs were used …

Trial Starts for Lawsuit Over Police Use of Force in Colorado

The trial for a lawsuit accusing Denver, Colorado, police of using indiscriminate force two years ago against people protesting the killing of George Floyd started Monday in federal court. Opening statements will come after a jury is seated for what …

Kansas Wildfire Kills 1, Destroys Several Homes

One person was found dead March 6 as firefighters worked to contain a wildfire that burned 12,000 acres in south-central Kansas. Reno County Emergency Management officials said one person who had been reported missing during the fire was found dead …

Judge Gives Nod to Surfside Unit Owners’ $83M Settlement

A judge has given preliminary approval to a settlement agreement that would allocate $83 million to individual owners of condominium units at the collapsed Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida. It’s the latest of several developments in the aftermath of …

FMCSA Declares Texas Motor Carrier to be an Imminent Hazard to Public Safety Following Fatal Crash

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Koboat Trucking LLC, USDOT No. 3273682, a Houston-based motor carrier, to be an “imminent hazard” to public safety and ordered the motor carrier to immediately cease all …

Missouri Cement Company Fined $17K For Shorting Pay of Worker

A federal administrative law judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered a Hannibal, Missouri cement company to pay a worker the company penalized for assisting federal safety investigators during a site visit. On March 1, Administrative Law Judge William B. Moran …

Avatar Becomes Second Florida Insurer to Face Insolvency This Year

Two weeks after St. Johns Insurance Co. was declared insolvent, Florida regulators have taken steps to begin liquidating Tampa-based Avatar Property & Casualty Insurance Co., making it the second carrier this year to falter and the sixth in the last …