January 17, 2023
President Joe Biden declared that a major disaster exists in California and ordered federal aid to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe winter storms, flooding and landslides. The president’s action makes federal funding …
January 17, 2023
The Massachusetts insurance department will hear testimony virtually on February 3 regarding a proposed 4.0% decrease in average workers’ compensation rates. The rate filing submitted by the Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau of Massachusetts in December calls for a …
January 17, 2023
The Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA) has granted a voluntary extension to March 31, 2023, of the deadline by which former FedNat Insurance Company and Maison Insurance Company policyholders are required to institute litigation for first-party property damage claims arising …
January 17, 2023
CHICAGO (AP) – A worker was hospitalized in grave condition last Thursday after a Chicago building partially collapsed, trapping him beneath debris before firefighters rescued him, fire officials said. Three workers were in the three-story building when a portion of …
January 17, 2023
Louisiana State Police arrested a Texas public adjuster for allegedly pocketing $592,000 from settlement checks that were intended for seven former clients by forging the homeowners’ signatures. Andrew Joseph Mitchell, 43, voluntarily surrendered to state police at the St. Charles …
January 17, 2023
A cloud shot up vertically like a plume of smoke in a matter of seconds before a Hawaiian Airlines flight last month hit severe turbulence and 25 people on board were injured, according to a preliminary report by the National …
January 17, 2023
Evertree Insurance, an omni-channel property and casualty insurance distribution platform, acquired Provision Insurance Group, a Michigan-based independent insurance brokerage firm. “We are thrilled to welcome all 44 employees, including 20 producers, onto the Evertree Platform,” said Alex Tuff, Founder and …
January 17, 2023
NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ A nursing home owner who faces criminal and civil complaints over evacuating residents to a squalid warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida in 2021 is now being sued by federal authorities who say he misspent $4 …
January 17, 2023
Travelers Companies today released an estimate of $459 million in pre-tax catastrophe losses during the fourth quarter, and expects to report net income of $819 million for the last three months of 2022. Travelers said catastrophe losses were primarily caused …
January 17, 2023
A 3D printer is taking home building to a new level — literally. The enormous printer weighing more than 12 tons is creating what is believed to be the first 3D-printed, two-story home in the United States. The machine steadily …