The mother of a girl injured in a 2014 sledding accident at a Nebraska school will get a $500,000 lump-sum payment as part of a settlement with the school district’s insurance company. The Omaha World Herald reports that Valarie Potter …
Privately owned insurance brokerage firm, Hylant, has promoted JPaul Dixon to senior vice president in its Ann Arbor, Michigan, office. Dixon has worked for Hylant for 25 years. He is an authority in operational insurance and risk management strategy, contributing …
Workers have spent weeks restoring a central Indiana county government’s computer system that was hacked by an unknown group demanding a ransom payment. Madison County officials decided to pay the undisclosed ransom following the Nov. 4 hacking that locked up …
Emporia State University received the highest number of votes by percentage of students enrolled to win the initial “Don’t Text #Just Drive” fall contest, according to the Kansas Insurance Department. Seven Kansas universities participated in the campaign. In all, nearly …
Western National Insurance Group has hired Eric Furtado as vice president of agency sales. He is based in the company’s Edina, Minn. office and is responsible for day-to-day sales activities, as well as management of the group’s Regional Agency Manager …
South Dakota law enforcement authorities are no longer releasing vehicle crash information because doing so could violate a constitutional amendment approved by voters this month. The state’s Department of Public Safety suspended access to an online crash report database after …
A contract Iowa has proposed for its largest public employees union includes no wage increase and removes health insurance provisions, a sign that changes could be on the horizon for collective bargaining laws when the new Republican-majority Legislature returns next …
Nebraska’s Gage County will challenge its insurers’ decision not to cover it for a $28.1 million judgment awarded to six people who were wrongfully convicted of murder. KWBE reports that the county board approved hiring a law firm to fight …
A pawn shop that sold a gun to a mentally ill Missouri woman who used it to fatally shoot her father will settle in a wrongful death case, according to the attorney for the woman’s mother. Washington, D.C.-based Brady Center …
The state of Michigan says it will ask an appeals court to stop an order that calls for home delivery of water in Flint. The state briefly disclosed its next step on Nov. 21, less than two weeks after a …
