The Main Street America Group has promoted Ed Kuhl to executive vice president, chief financial officer and Dick Schultz to assistant vice president, and appointed Tom Frazier to assistant treasurer. Kuhl joined Main Street America in 1988 as controller. He …
How Mississippi handles its wind pool could very well determine the future of the state’s property insurance market, according to the state’s insurance commissioner. “[O]ne of the major problems that I have faced is how to handle the Mississippi Insurance …
About 1,200 hurricane-damaged homes in south Mississippi can be torn down under rules that have been extended by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA’s No Action Assurance program runs until Sept. 30 for houses in Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and Pearl …
Missouri businesses paid too much for their workers’ compensation insurance policies and have received refunds of nearly $2.5 million, state insurance officials said this week. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) in 2005 found that its rate-making system erroneously …
Merck & Co.’s painkiller Vioxx contributed to an Idaho postal worker’s heart attack, a jury in Atlantic City has ruled, reversing the verdict in the man’s first trial and hitting Merck with a total of $47.5 million in damages. In …
The New Jersey Supreme Court this week ruled that when police and firefighters get hurt handling an emergency, they can sue and win compensation if negligence contributed to the injury. The unanimous decision by New Jersey’s highest court found that …
A federal judge’s ruling brought to more than $334 million the amount that insurance company Amerigroup Corp. and its Illinois affiliate owe in damages and penalties for discriminating against pregnant women. U.S. District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber levied more than …
High-deductible health plans with low monthly premiums, like those recently proposed by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to cover the state’s uninsured, cut down on emergency room visits, according to a new study. The study, published in the Journal of the …
Massachusetts would become the first state in the nation to essentially require all insurers provide prescription drug coverage, under recommendations made Tuesday to the board overseeing the state’s landmark health care law. The recommendations would also make Massachusetts the first …
Wyoming and Arkansas are the deadliest states for truck crashes, according to a safety group that has called for tougher federal regulation to reduce fatalities hovering above 100 a week nationwide for years. The safest states for truck crashes were …
