When buying a new or used car, cost is always an issue and car insurance shopping is always a stressful task. Just as banks now have agencies connected to mortgage lending, a new day has dawned when shoppers for automobiles …
A North Carolina Senate panel has approved a plan to send more than $29 million to the University of North Carolina system to improve campus security. The plan approved by a Senate judiciary committee June 3 would help the system’s …
A federal safety official says a combination of construction and design problems triggered the collapse of a Jacksonville, Fla. parking garage last December that killed one worker. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined three contractors nearly $193,000 on …
There are strong advantages to a system in which businesses facing personal injury lawsuits could promptly pay injured parties for out-of-pocket medical expenses and lost wages while avoiding long court battles, high legal fees and “pain and suffering” damages, according …
Huntsville, Ala. insurance executive Wayne Parker and Huntsville attorney Cheryl Baswell Guthrie will be in a runoff for the Republican nomination for the 5th Congressional District seat. Parker nearly won without a runoff but didn’t quite reach 50 percent of …
South Carolina public safety officials planned a hurricane evacuation simulation as the state prepares for this year’s hurricane season. Public Safety spokesman Sid Gaulden said law enforcement personnel and traffic control devices were deployed on Interstate 26, U.S. 501 and …
Wells Fargo Insurance Services Inc. added Nicole Brown as vice president and account executive to its Southeast region professional risk group. She will be based in the firm’s Atlanta office. Brown will provide executive and professional liability product and technical …
Massachusetts businesses, pubs and state officials, including Lt. Governor Timothy Murray, are launching a new campaign to discourage drink driving and encourage the use of designated drivers. The Arbella Insurance Group Charitable Foundation is the title sponsor of Murray’s “Good …
A House subcommittee has scheduled a hearing next week into a proposal to create a federal insurance information agency in Washington, D.C. Congressman Paul E. Kanjorski, D-Pa., chairman of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises, announced …
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Vioxx users who suffered no known harm from the withdrawn pain drug cannot sue Merck & Co Inc to pay for medical tests and treatment by heart doctors, the drugmaker said Wednesday. In …
