Thousands of Mississippians who lost their homes during Hurricane Katrina have moved out of federally-provided travel trailers and mobile homes and into Mississippi Cottages, according to Gov. Haley Barbour The 2,000th unit was placed in Gulfport, making this the 667th …
U.S. Risk, Inc., a subsidiary of U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc., has added The Colony Group as a new market for its Criminal Justice Service Operations Program. The Colony Group, rated “A” by A.M. Best and a member of Argo …
Insurance industry groups are lining up quickly with responses to the Bush administration’s proposed overhaul of the way the government regulates the nation’s financial services industries, including insurance. The sweeping regulatory reform proposal announced by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson …
A woman who lives somewhere near Dartmouth College is suing an online sex site, claiming it identified her in her area even though a nude photograph purporting to be her was not. The woman, suing under the pseudonym “Jane Doe,” …
Farmers Ins. of Columbus, Inc. and Indiana Farmers Insurance Co. are introducing Farmers FlexSM, a new package of options that can reward drivers for being accident-free. “Our research shows that many policyholders would prefer to have the ability to choose …
The safety of rail tank cars that carry the most dangerous hazardous materials will be improved under the “most sweeping and revolutionary proposal in decades,” according to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters. “This proposal is designed to significantly …
Progressive has opened a new service center in Pennsylvania where insureds with damaged vehicles can drop off their cars, get a ride to a rented one and hand off the processing a repair job to the company. Those using the …
The chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Vermont House says he’d like lawmakers to consider lowering the threshold at which a driver is drunk behind the wheel from a blood-alcohol content of .08 percent to a lowest-in-the-nation .05. “We’ve …
Stamford, Connecticut Mayor Dannel Malloy has asked Gov. M. Jodi Rell to order more frequent state inspections of cranes. In a letter to Rell, he said the city building official has authority to only inspect the base footing upon which …
Arkansas was spared widespread storms Saturday but remained waterlogged from non-stop flooding that began nearly two weeks ago. Storms hit isolated areas and residents along the White River in east Arkansas and the Black River in the northeast contended for …
