Willis Group Holdings Limited, the global insurance broker, has acquired Chicago-based InsuranceNoodle, an Internet distributor of U.S. small business insurance. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. InsuranceNoodle offers Willis a proprietary web-based technology platform for online application and quoting …
The Bush administration plans to review the U.S. government’s regulatory system for financial institutions with the goal of making changes to better reflect modern markets. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the review, which will be conducted by officials at his …
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch is in the middle of a battle over a bill to change the way juries can assign blame in lawsuits. Lynch has talked with business groups who are against the change and with trial lawyers …
Two passengers who witnessed their intoxicated friend crash his car into the back of a motorcycle had an obligation to help the injured man, a New Jersey appellate court has ruled. The driver and his passengers made 44 cell phone …
Federal Emergency Management Agency officials received grant applications from nearly 16,000 New Jerseyans whose homes were flooded in April. Monday. June 25, was the deadline to apply. FEMA approved nearly $17 million in individual assistance grants to more than 9,300 …
Iowa-based Hawkeye-Security Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group’s Agency Markets business unit, recently recognized its highest performing agencies with the 2006 Chairman’s Award at meetings held in Kauai, Hawaii. Agencies earn the award when they achieve size, growth, and …
One Manhattan restaurant is serving up an intellectual property lawsuit, saying a rival seafood bar run by a former protege copies “each and every element” of its business. Rebecca Charles, who opened the Pearl Oyster Bar in the West Village …
A mistrial was declared this week in the case of a Virginia man who accused the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vermont of negligence for the alleged actions of one of its priests. Chittenden County Superior Court Judge Ben Joseph …
Pennsylvania hospitals reported making serious mistakes in the operating room — using the wrong procedure, operating on the wrong body part or even the wrong patient — 174 times during a 21/2 year period, according to a report released by …
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland told members of a Congressional panel on Tuesday, June 26th that insurance companies are preying on elderly Oklahomans by selling unnecessary Medicare plans. Holland traveled to Washington, D.C. to testify before the U.S. House Committee …
