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Two Named to Louisiana Workers’ Comp Corp. Manager Positions
Mar 20 2012 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) has filled two key management positions. Brent Toups is the company’s new business unit manager for large accounts and U.S. Longshore and Harbor Workers’...
Three Mull Lawsuits in U.S. Against Murdoch’s News Corp.
Mar 5 2012 // Three people who believe they were targeted by a private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World while they were in the United States are considering suing his company in U.S. courts, a source...
One Insurance Broker’s Drive for Innovation
Mar 5 2012 // When Jessica Scorpio, 24, began her quest for insurance for Getaround.com, a peer-to-peer car sharing organization, she ran into a few closed doors. “I definitely spent my whole 22nd year banging on insurance...
One-Armed Man Sues Starbucks For Not Hiring Him
Feb 23 2012 // A man who was born with half a left arm is suing Starbucks for failing to hire him as a barista. Eli Pierre sued the company in San Diego, Calif. two weeks ago for unspecified damages. Pierre says that during a Feb. 1...
Four More Bodies Found on Italian Costa Concordia Cruise Liner
Feb 22 2012 // Salvage workers have found four more bodies in the submerged Costa Concordia cruise liner, bringing the confirmed number of dead to 21 on the ship that ran aground and capsized off the Italian coast last month, authorities...
One Year Later, Christchurch Still ‘Safe Haven’ for New Zealand Quake Survivor
Feb 21 2012 // Jane Taylor was managing a women’s clothing store in downtown Christchurch a year ago when the earthquake struck. She was dug from the rubble within minutes with horrific injuries — her vertebrae were crushed, her...
Five Star Healthcare Adds Managed Care Coverage
Feb 17 2012 // Five Star Healthcare, a division of Crump Insurance Services, has added an insurance facility to provide coverage for managed care service providers. The product consists of a single-policy solution providing multiple...
Five Startup Businesses Agents Should Watch
Feb 6 2012 // It hasn’t been the best of times for America’s Main Street businesses. Often facing overwhelming competition from big box stores, many small businesses face an uphill battle from the outset and more than a few...
Six Northeastern States Saw Average Auto Premium Rates Fall, NAIC Says
Feb 6 2012 // Six Northeastern states saw their annual average auto premium fall, according to the latest data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. They are: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,...
Two Vermont Towns to Decide on Abandoned Asbestos Mine
Jan 31 2012 // Voters in Lowell and Eden are going to vote on whether to request that an abandoned asbestos mine be declared a federal Superfund hazardous waste site so it can be cleaned up and eventually redeveloped as a biomass power...
Four Northeastern States Get New Federal Emergency Aid From HUD
Jan 23 2012 // New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont and New Jersey are among the eight states nationwide that will share in $400 million in new federal emergency aid announced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last...
Six Things I Learned from Reading Steve Jobs Authorized Biography
Jan 23 2012 // The first lesson learned from Walter Issacson’s best-selling biography, Steve Jobs (Simon and Schuster), is that you should have started your agency in a garage with a guy called “Woz.” If you did, stop...
Five Star Expands Classes for Business Auto Program
Jan 11 2012 // Five Star Specialty Programs has announced a new market for the business auto program, which will provide additional coverage for more classes, including wholesale distributors, retail locations and various...
Two N.Y. Port Authority Retirees Sue Over Revoked Lifetime Toll Passes
Jan 5 2012 // Two retired Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers who became lawyers have filed lawsuits because the agency revoked lifetime toll and parking passes. Thomas Westfield filed suit on behalf of himself and...
Four New Hampshire Agencies Form Regional Alliance
Dec 13 2011 // Four insurance agencies in New Hampshire announced the formation of a new partnership called Northern United Agents Alliance (NUAA). The agencies said the move will help combine their resources to meet the needs of a...
Two in Critical Condition After San Francisco Apartment Fire
Dec 2 2011 // San Francisco fire officials say two people are in critical condition after a two-alarm fire broke out at an apartment building in the city’s Mission district. Crews were still on the scene around 6 a.m. Thursday...
Two North Texas Men Sentenced in Arson for Insurance Case
Nov 23 2011 // Two men in Texas have been sentenced to prison for conspiring to commit arson in order to obtain insurance proceeds, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced. Blaise Hancock, of...
3M Powerless as October Snow Surprises Northeast
Oct 31 2011 // A freak October snowstorm knocked out power Sunday to more than 3.1 million homes and businesses across the U.S. Northeast, with close to two feet (60 centimeters) of snow falling in some areas over the weekend. The storm...
Two Railroads Face Pollution Lawsuit in California
Oct 19 2011 // When the lump on her toddler’s tummy turned out to be a rare cancer, Carla Hernandez wondered if living just a half-mile from two rail yards emitting a constant veil of near-invisible pollution was somehow...
Two Plead Guilty in Houston in New York Tour Boat Insurance Case
Oct 17 2011 // Two men have entered guilty pleas in a case involving the sale of bogus insurance to a New York tour operator whose boat capsized in 2005 killing 20 elderly tourists. Edmund Hugh Benton, 63, of Scottsdale, Ariz., pleaded...
