Iowa Gov. Chet Culver has granted flood victims an additional deadline extension for tax returns and for paying state taxes. The deadline is now Aug. 29, a month later than the original date. That’s for returns and payments due after …
Headquartered in Maitland, Florida, North American Risk Services purchased the Tallahassee divisional assets of Unisource Administrators from Claimetrics Inc. NARS is a national provider of property and casualty third-party administration services. Chief Executive Officer, Walt Silva, said Unisource’s Tallahassee division …
Malpractice insurer ProMutual Group recently announced a rate reduction for individual physicians and surgeons in the state of Pennsylvania. All individual professional liability policyholders will receive a 6 percent decrease in their base rate. Rate changes became effective July 1, …
Authorities say a fire that forced some residents of a St. Paul, Minnesota apartment building to climb or jump to safety was intentionally set. St. Paul Fire Marshall Steve Zaccard says there were no serious injuries in the fire July …
Plainville, Conn. police have arrested a Portland woman, accusing her of trying to retaliate against her former boss by having electricity cut off to his home. Police say 33-year-old Susan Armato was fired June 25 from her job at a …
New Hampshire is changing the looks of auto, truck and motorcycle registration documents. The new certificate will contain a bar code that will allow police or registration officials to copy registration information with a scanner, instead of having to write …
The doctor who determined that a bodybuilding Boston firefighter could not work because he is “totally and permanently” disabled has made similar recommendations for other firefighters. The Boston Globe reports that since 2001 Dr. John F. Mahoney has seen 25 …
A strong earthquake with a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off the northern Japanese coast Monday, but there was no danger of a tsunami, the nation’s weather agency said. The quake occurred at 8:30 p.m., about 20 miles below the ocean’s …
Hundreds of thousands of tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the United States carry commercial driver’s licenses despite also qualifying for full federal disability payments, and some of those drivers have suffered seizures, heart attacks or unconscious spells, according to a …
Massachusetts insurers and business owners have one question for Gov. Deval Patrick: Why us? Patrick is looking to tap insurers, businesses and hospitals to help close a looming $130 million budget hole in the state’s landmark 2006 health insurance law, …
