U.S. car-safety policies for child passengers have become some of the weakest in the developed world, according to safety advocates. Martha Bidez, a professor of safety engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and advocate for improved U.S. child-protection …
Los Angeles-based Bedford Falls Insurance Services Inc. announced it has obtained its disadvantage business enterprise (DBE), women-owned business enterprise (WOBE), minority-owned business enterprise (MOBE) and small business enterprise (SBE) certifications, and is accepting new accounts in California.
Montana has the highest workers’ compensation premium rates in the nation, at $3.33 per $100 of payroll, followed next by Alaska, which has a rate of $3.10 per $100 of payroll, according to a new study. In the 2010 workers’ …
Navigators Management Co., Inc., has introduced an online platform offering pollution liability insurance for small general service and trade contractors. Agents and brokers can obtain real-time bindable quotes for contractors with up to $5 million in annual revenues at premiums …
Will Floridians, who already support a state-backed property insurer and a catastrophe fund, support another public insurance entity for sinkhole coverage? Such a fund might be the “best way to go,” according to John Auer, president of domestic insurer American …
The three politicians who want to be Georgia’s next insurance commissioner see eye-to-eye on the need for the insurance regulator to be involved in attracting new insurers and insurance jobs to the state. According to an Insurance Journal survey, Democrat …
A federal judge has barred New York City from hiring new firefighters after criticizing its handling of a discrimination lawsuit against the fire department. Judge Nicholas Garaufis (GEHR’-ah-fuhs) said Tuesday his permanent injunction would be lifted if the city agreed …
More than 7.7 million people are expected to shake, drop, cover and hold on in the country’s largest earthquake drill in history. The Great California ShakeOut is an earthquake drill in which participants practice how to protect themselves from falling …
Privately held insurance broker Lockton Companies has expanded its St. Louis, Mo., office with the addition of Timothy George as vice president and producer. George comes to Lockton after more than 20 years at Aon Risk Services, where he most …
Masked youths clad in black have torched cars, smashed storefronts and thrown up roadblocks, clashing with riot police across France as protests over raising the retirement age to 62 took a radical turn. Hundreds of flights were canceled Tuesday as …
