Taxpayers should be off the hook for any damages stemming from claims of police misconduct related to the Republican National Convention under a first-of-its-kind agreement. The deal required the Republican Party’s host committee to buy insurance covering up to $10 …
A catastrophic risk management company says private insurers could face damages from Hurricane Gustav between $4 billion and $10 billion. Newark, California-based Risk Management Solutions said on September 2 that the estimate included damage to the offshore petroleum industry and …
Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. appointed Orlando D. Ashford as senior vice president of human resources. Ashford, whose appointment is effective Sept. 22, will work closely with key executives of MMC’s operating companies to examine compensation, diversity and inclusion, talent …
A grand jury has indicted a Houston, Texas couple over a 2003 fire that killed their daughter and a boy in an alleged house insurance scheme. Harris County Fire Marshal’s arson investigator Lonnie Blevins said Wednesday that 44-year-old Sharon Watkins …
Wells Fargo Insurance Services Inc. added Emanuel (Manny) Lauria Jr. as managing director of its Atlanta office. Lauria will oversee all operations of the Atlanta office, including new business development, customer satisfaction and retention, revenue growth and profitability. Lauria will …
David Dickson, former president of the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State, has been appointed to the underwriting committee of the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board. Dickson has been named to the committee as the appointee of the …
Homeowners Choice Inc., a Clearwater, Florida-based homeowners’ insurer, announced that its wholly-owned insurance subsidiary, Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Co. Inc., received approval from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation to increase its policy takeout authorization from Citizens Property Insurance …
The owners of a nightclub where a 2003 fire at a Great White concert killed 100 people have reached a tentative $813,000 settlement with survivors and relatives of those killed, the latest in a flurry of agreements made in the …
A center that studies emergency responses to disasters like the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina is opening at a Manhattan college. The Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies is named after a 28-year-old firefighter killed at the World …
Powerful Hurricane Ike weakened slightly as it moved across the Atlantic toward the Bahamas and the U.S. on Thursday, while Tropical Storm Hanna’s death toll from floods in Haiti grew to 136. Campgrounds were closed and some evacuations began on …
