A Pittsburgh-area company that operates an industrial park and intermodal terminal has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a whistleblower suit filed by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. OSHA sued last year on behalf of former employee Andrew …
IFG Companies hired Michael G. Vought as president of Excess and Umbrella. He will be based in IFG’s New York City office and will be responsible for building and leading IFG’s Excess and Umbrella business through a network of offices …
K&K Insurance Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Aon plc has launched a program with enhanced coverage options for venues and other facilities. The venues program provides coverage for facilities, arenas, amphitheaters, auditoriums, civic centers, coliseums, convention centers, movie theaters, music …
Louisiana officials are refusing to disclose the details of crude oil shipments railroads haul through the state. The state Department of Public Safety and Corrections says the information freight railroads are required to provide to Louisiana is considered confidential. Louisiana …
A wildfire that has blazed in a large swath in Northern California for the past five days is now 74 percent contained, according to fire and forestry officials. The Monticello Fire in Yolo County had at one point forced several …
A home in Burnet County, Texas, that was picked up and carried 100 yards by a tornado last month, was reinforced according to its owner, Trenton Ashworth. The National Weather System reported that the EF-2 tornado that hit the Texas …
Federal regulators widened the recall of salmonella-tainted chicken produced by California-based Foster Farms to include products believed to have been send to military bases in five states to feed personnel and their families, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture on …
A Milwaukee, Wis., woman and her husband have been awarded more than $25 million in a medical malpractice case. The woman’s arms and legs were amputated in 2011 after a strep infection went undetected. A Milwaukee County jury determined Ascaris …
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed legislation that would have limited who could work in the state as a health insurance guide and blamed a national conservative group for injecting an error into the model legislation. The vetoed bill would have …
The IMA Financial Group Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, IMA Inc., announced a merger with Corporate Insurance Group Inc. (CIG), located in Overland Park, Kan. CIG President George M. “Mac” Humphries III, will join IMA post-merger. CIG is a …
