The number of pedestrian fatalities in Hawaii dropped in 2006 as police got tough on drivers who didn’t yield at crosswalks. There were 29 pedestrian deaths throughout the state in 2006, a decrease from the 36 deaths in 2005, according …
Strategic Independent Agents Alliance (SIAA) recently announced that Total Insurance Services of Northbrook, Ill. has established Northern Illinois Strategic Insurance Alliance as SIAA’s newest master agency. The new exclusive territory covers several counties in northern Illinois, and will offer numerous …
Planning at all levels of a community is going to be critical to surviving an avian flu pandemic, according to Dr. Francis Achampong, chief academic officer of Penn State University’s Mont Alto campus near Gettysburg, Pa. Achampong recently authored an …
In light of food poisoning outbreaks involving spinach and lettuce, the government and the produce industry are scrambling to make leafy greens safer before the spring planting season. New guidelines from the industry are due in April on how to …
Last year was the deadliest year for Arizona’s boaters and watercraft users, Arizona Game and Fish Department officials said. In 2006, 14 people were killed, 153 were injured, and there were 255 accidents in Arizona waters, according to department records. …
A 350-pound tiger ate most of a zookeeper’s right arm in a bloody mauling, according to a witness to the San Francisco Zoo attack that has kept its victim hospitalized for more than a week. The zoo has not released …
Colorado officials scrambled to find helicopters and other equipment on Tuesday in an effort to get hay to thousands of stranded cattle in the southeasten part of the state, five days after a snowstorm buried the region in drifts up …
Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West) submitted a reply brief on Dec. 21 to the California Office of Administrative Law, as a follow up to an earlier petition filed in September protesting then Commissioner John Garamendi’s actions …
The California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation has elected Commissioner John C. Wilson chairman. Wilson is a contract accreditation consultant to the California Association of Joint Powers Authorities and has held positions with the California Chamber of …
The Los Angeles Chapter of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter Society is hosting a meeting at 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 9 at the Brasserie Restaurant Sheraton Hotel/Macy’s Plaza on 711 South Hope Street. The featured speaker with be Barry Zalma, …
