Vernon Stoner, a former deputy chief executive officer for Sound Transit and formerly the city manager in Vancouver and Lacey, has been named deputy director for operations at the Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I). The deputy director position …
Millennium Corporate Solutions headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and Golden Pacific Insurance Services Inc. of Monrovia, Calif. have merged. According to Sergio D. Bechara, chairman of MCS, the GPIS office will be relocating its operations to a new MCS office in …
California’s Advisory Task Force on Insurance Fraud held its first meeting last week, with the goal of creating innovative methods to combat insurance fraud and forwarding an aggressive anti-fraud campaign introduced by the Commissioner. The Task Force’s members include leaders …
A business-labor compromise that emerged at the Arizona Legislature would increase Arizona’s caps on workers’ compensation benefits received by employees hurt on the job. Under a freshly rewritten workers’ compensation bill given preliminary Senate approval on voice vote last Thursday, …
A meat supplier expanded a voluntary recall of ground beef products because they may be contaminated with E.coli. United Food Group LLC said in a statement it expanded the recall of 75,000 pounds of ground beef to include an additional …
A judge with the New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration has been placed on paid leave while the agency investigates an allegation that he made an inappropriate sexual proposal to an injured worker while serving as a mediator. Chris Berkheimer, a …
Lawmakers using state-issued vehicles filed auto insurance claims at a far higher rate than the general public, costing California taxpayers nearly $90,000 the past two years, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. The lawmakers, some of whom are …
Gov. Mark Sanford called this year’s legislative session a success for South Carolinians even though only a few key proposals debated during the past five months will become law this year. Sanford praised bills designed to curb skyrocketing home insurance …
In an ongoing effort to improve Citizens’ policyholder and applicant services, Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink is convening the third meeting of the legislatively-created task force on Citizens Property Insurance Claims Handling and Resolution. The meeting will be held …
Workers compensation administrator First Cardinal LLC announced the hiring and promotion of several employees at its Latham, N.Y. headquarters. Christine D. Bentsen has joined the accounting department as a senior accountant. Prior to joining First Cardinal, Bentsen was employed with …
