Dartmouth College is spending the next five years helping China improve its health care system through a partnership that officials say could pay off at home as well. China announced in 2009 it would pour $124 billion into changing the …
The Maryland Insurance Administration is offering advice to car owners about risks of a total loss and how GAP insurance can help them. The officials said that car owners sometimes assume − incorrectly − that if their cars are considered …
Worldwide Facilities, a Los Angeles-based independent surplus-lines broker and managing general agency, acquired assets of Privett Special Risk Services, a New York City-based wholesaler. Privett Special Risk Services was founded in 1997 by Don Privett. The firm’s management and staff …
Sunoco, a petroleum and petrochemical manufacturing giant, will pay $2.2 million in Massachusetts to resolve a hazardous waste dispute. The company was alleged to have sought payment from a state fund for hazardous waste cleanup, while at the same time …
A New York judge has approved the $7.5 million settlement of civil fraud claims over minority hiring against two construction companies building a tunnel connecting the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Station. Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain in …
A New Jersey couple whose beach house was destroyed by a storm 50 years ago has finally been awarded compensation for it, but may appeal the award. Barely two years after Edward and Nancy Klumpp built their beach house in …
Zooming along at 170 mph (275 kph) in a fighter jet carrying thousands of pounds (kilograms) of volatile fuel, two Navy pilots faced nothing but bad choices when their aircraft malfunctioned over Virginia’s most populated city on Friday, April 6. …
The agency overseeing Massachusetts’ landmark health care law has begun enrolling thousands of legal immigrants into the subsidized insurance program after the state’s highest court ruled that state lawmakers unconstitutionally denied the benefit to foreign-born residents who have been in …
Former Toms River Regional Schools superintendent Michael Ritacco pleaded guilty to public corruption and tax evasion charges Thursday. Federal prosecutors claimed Ritacco accepted between $1 million and $2 million in cash and gifts from the district’s insurance broker. The broker …
New York regulators are expanding their investigation into the so-called force-placed insurance that target homeowners in financial distress. Benjamin Lawsky, the state’s superintendent for the financial services department, said Thursday that he has asked largest licensed force-placed insurers operating in …
