A former student at East Lyme High School in Connecticut who needed emergency brain surgery after crashing into a cement wall during indoor track practice has settled a lawsuit against the town for $325,000. Nicholas Furlani sued the town, the …
Construction insurance specialists Sherri Lund-Fery and Dave Van Gordon have joined the Elliott, Powell, Baden & Baker Insurance team. Lund-Fery and Van Gordon are both Certified Insurance Specialists in Construction (CISC) and come to EPB&B with more than 20 years …
Sean McGovern now heads Lloyd’s operations in the U.S. and Canada – the first and third largest sources of business for its underwriters. Lloyd’s not only wants to hold on to that business, but also to increase it. “We’re in …
New Jersey prosecutors say a woman who is currently serving a five-year sentence for insurance fraud and identity theft has been indicted in a separate insurance fraud scheme to steal over $8,000 from Liberty Mutual. Dalynn White, also known as …
Nearly 40,000 young chickens are dead following an early morning fire at a poultry house in Rockingham County, Virginia. WHSV-TV reports that the fire was reported shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday at the poultry house on Mayland Road in Broadway. …
Citigroup was accused in a new lawsuit filed of using companywide layoffs during the recent financial turmoil to purge its work force of scores of female employees to save the jobs of less-qualified men. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District …
Three insurance producer groups have joined forces to form the Texas Coalition of Health Insurance Agents to monitor, respond to and communicate on the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (PPACA) in Texas. Coalition members include …
More than 1,500 Louisiana homeowners saw their residences swept away by seizure during the third quarter of 2010, a national company that tracks foreclosures reported Oct. 14. Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac said that in addition to 1,560 foreclosure sales, another 2,819 …
A developer is trying a last-ditch effort to save the flood-damaged Czech Village neighborhood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A survey determined there were 21 of the 150 or so homes damaged in 2008 that could be eligible for the National …
Louisiana and Texas families displaced by Hurricanes Ike and Gustav now have until March 31 to transition to permanent housing. U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said that …
