April 21, 2008
Agency Specialty Product Network, a unit of Aon Corp., has named five new regional vice presidents. Rob Romano will head the Northeast Region, which comprises Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York City and Long Island. Romano …
April 21, 2008
$40 Million Increased amount in assessments levied on New York insurers as part of the Empire State’s 2008 budget, a 20 percent increase in the fees. The assessments come on top of a mandatory 2 percent premium tax that insurers …
April 21, 2008
Anti-discrimination laws extend workplace protections to employees who have personal relationships with those of another race, a federal court in New York has ruled. In a first of its kind decision, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of …
April 21, 2008
A speaker maker and two bus companies have agreed to pay a combined $1.3 million in tentative settlements stemming from a 2003 fire at a Rhode Island nightclub that killed 100 people, according to court papers filed. The companies agreed …
April 21, 2008
A five-year, $1 billion taxpayer subsidy to help Pennsylvania doctors buy medical malpractice insurance lapsed at the end of last month, forcing physicians to pay higher premiums unless Democrats and Republicans break an impasse over expanding a state health insurance …
April 21, 2008
A Speedy Slow-Down “Clearly the statistics are going in the right direction. I realize it’s just one year, but it’s pretty dramatic.” —Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Bernard Cohen, commenting on the year anniversary of the Commonwealth’s Junior Operator License Law. Since …
April 21, 2008
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an Exxon Mobil Corp appeal over $112 million in punitive damages awarded for radioactive contamination of a 33-acre tract of industrial property in Harvey, Louisiana. Without comment, the high court refused to review …
April 21, 2008
Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced the arrests of seven individuals for their alleged involvement in automobile arson and insurance fraud. The arrests are the result of two automobile “give-up” investigations. Helen Marler, 28, and her husband Jason Marler, 33, both …
April 21, 2008
A federal jury has ordered an insurance company to pay a Bigfork woman $5.3 million in damages in a bad-faith lawsuit that accused the company of failing to pay her medical expenses after a head-on car crash in January 2003. …
April 21, 2008
The New York Workers’ Compensation Board plans to yank the license of CRM Holdings Ltd. to provide third party administrative services to self-insured workers’ compensation pools in the state as early as next month, according to documents sent to the …