Wyoming is the worst state in the nation in terms of enacting highway safety laws, according to a group that advocates such laws. Wyoming had only four of 15 critical safety laws that the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety …
The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. will present Jerry Fastman with its Industry Professional Executive of the Year award at the annual Metro Regional Awareness Program, Jan. 25, 2007, at the New York Marriott Brooklyn. This award …
Federal prosecutors pursuing public corruption charges against former Maryland state Sen. Thomas Bromwell are trying to seize the $400,000 buyout he received when he stepped down as head of the state’s largest insurance fund for injured workers. U.S. Attorney Rod …
Chciago-based Specialty Underwriters’ Alliance, Inc. announced recently that it amended its Partner Agent Program Agreement with Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. (AUI) to include small employers workers’ compensation. AUI will provide workers’ compensation through approximately 600 retail agents. The program will be …
Colorado lawmakers are trying to put pressure on the federal government to speed up aid to ranchers and county governments digging out from back-to-back blizzards on the southeastern plains. Sens. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., and Wayne Allard, R-Colo., both said Wednesday …
Nearly 100 miners at three mining operations were stranded underground in Wyoming Wednesday afternoon when an electrical substation near here failed at 1:30 p.m., officials said. The power failure affected the West Vaco, Granger and the FMC trona mining operations, …
In the wake of a fierce windstorm that left many Wenatchee, Wash.-area homes damaged, the state Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) is reminding the public to be mindful and not to take shortcuts when hiring contractors to make repairs. …
California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation will be holding a public hearing on the Official Medical Fee Schedule – Physician Fee Schedule regulations on Jan. 24 in Los Angeles. The public hearing has been scheduled to permit all interested persons the …
The number of businesses in Montana that offer health insurance to their workers is roughly unchanged since 2003, but higher costs are increasingly being shifted to employees, a new report shows. According to the report, about half of Montana businesses …
Maryland Insurance Commissioner R. Steven Orr has appointed Kimberly Yvette Robinson as director of government relations at the Maryland Insurance Administration. Robinson succeeds Brett Lininger who resigned the agency in December to form his own government relations firm. Robinson joined …
