The Zurich Financial Services Group has launched a global initiative focused on the development of products and services addressing the evolving risks associated with climate change, as well as the establishment of a long-range carbon management strategy. “Kicking-off our global …
The rumors, and at this point that’s all they are, apparently started with a brief report on CNBC that Willis Group Holdings had expressed interest in acquiring Marsh, Inc. from MMC. Is there any truth in it? “No comment,” said …
Federal grand jurors have indicted two Sioux Falls men on charges of burning down their car stereo installation business to collect the insurance money. One of them, Chad Michael Blair, 31, earlier was charged with an unrelated scheme to set …
Beacon Marketing Group – “Helping to guide your insurance prospecting needs to new destinations” Orange, CA – January 22, 2008: Beacon Marketing Group was founded by a management team with over 35 years combined experience working in the insurance industry. …
A Mississippi judge says he disqualified himself from hearing several lawsuits because federal authorities were investigating allegations that powerful plaintiffs attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs tried to illegally influence him in a different case. Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter had …
The U.S. government will pay $750,000 to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by the family of a Florida woman who died after eight surgeries in just over a month in 2005. Betty Jean Plato, 76, arrived with stomach pain …
A South Carolina company being sued by neighbors for polluting groundwater around its plant in Myrtle Beach is asking a court to force those neighbors to help pay for testing and cleanup of contamination. AVX Corp. says in a proposed …
Some Tennessee restaurant owners are concerned that a small, unrated insurance company with ties to the state has been chosen to take over a worker’s compensation fund. Already liable for a $4.8 million fund that the state says was mismanaged, …
The pastor of an Albany, Ga., church has been charged with first degree arson in connection with a fire that did severe damage to the church, the Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner’s office said. The Rev. Joseph Howard III, …
Allstate and Allstate Floridian are pleased with the Florida First District Court of Appeal’s decision to grant an immediate stay from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation’s order to cease writing new business. In a written statement, Allstate said, “The …
