Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty announced three staff changes at the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. McCarty appointed Rebecca McCarley deputy chief of staff; promoted Chris Bailey to acting director of governmental relations; and named Monte Stevens acting cabinet and …
Chicago-based Geo. F. Brown & Sons, Inc. (GFB) announced today that it has entered into a direct contract with an A.M. Best “A” rated carrier for writing workers’ compensation insurance. Available on an admitted basis in Illinois, Indiana and Missouri. …
A Superior Court jury in Stamford, Conn. has ordered a city obstetrician to pay $38.5 million to the family of a boy born with cerebral palsy in 2003. The verdict is believed to be among the largest medical malpractice awards …
A couple in a famed apartment building that has been home to celebrities such as Angelina Jolie are suing a neighbor over her heavy smoking. Lawyers Jonathan and Jenny Needleman Selbin say in a lawsuit filed Thursday that their home …
When a legally blind woman went to eat at N.Y. fast-food restaurants, workers greeted her with mockery and mistreatment, she said in a lawsuit. Employees grew irritated when she asked them to read menus to her, and workers in one …
An Iowa insurance company is settling a lawsuit with the Minnesota attorney general and will offer refunds to as many as 2,400 senior citizens who purchased long-term annuities. American Equity Life Holding Co. was accused of exploiting the elderly by …
A multi-agency state task force led by the Tennessee Department of Transportation to help the hardest hit areas with storm debris removal got underway Sunday. Operation “Tennessee Storm” will be aimed at debris removal of public right-of-ways in Macon and …
Thousands of Massachusetts drivers with histories of multiple crashes continue to get behind the wheel despite law designed to crack down on habitual offenders. A Boston Globe review of state motor vehicle records finds that about 87,000 drivers in Massachusetts …
After a month of testimony, jurors in Hartford are expected to begin deliberating this week over the fate of former executives of General Re Corp., a reinsurance company owned by Berkshire Hathaway, without hearing from its chief, billionaire investor Warren …
Aon Corp. announced that it is integrating its worldwide risk and insurance brokerage operations into a single global business – Aon Risk Services. The newly formed operation will have “more than 26,000 colleagues in 120 countries and more than $5 …
