A judge has ordered the federal agency that regulates coal mining to strengthen rules designed to make the nation’s 38,000 underground coal miners safer by creating better-trained rescue teams. U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Judge …
Devastating “From what I saw today, it was incredible, and we only saw a very small portion today. If you extrapolate that over the entire geographic area that is impacted by Kentucky, it’s a devastating situation for the state.” —Acting …
Top 25 Surplus Lines Coverage in Florida – 2008 Ranked By Policy Count Coverage Premium # Policies Inland Marine (Personal) $25,232,485 197,325 Commercial General Liability $571,644,547 138,315 Commercial Property $1,929,855,449 103,974 Commercial Package (P&C) $273,747,233 72,709 Homeowners (HO3) $142,865,697 58,327 …
Juan Andrade and Jonathan Bennett have been named as interim co-leads of the Property and Casualty Operations of The Hartford. Their appointment to those interim positions follows the departure of Neil Wolin, president and chief operating officer of the The …
Two members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Services said they would introduce legislation to create national standards for how states regulate the surplus lines market and reinsurance as well as a uniform system of surplus lines …
Hazard mortality is most prominent in the South, where most people are killed by severe weather, such as tornadoes. University of South Carolina geographers have produced a map of natural-hazard mortality that gives a county-level representation of the likelihood of …
The survivors of four Blackwater Worldwide contractors killed in a grisly ambush in Iraq five years ago have suffered another setback in their legal battle with the company. A federal administrative law judge in North Carolina ruled the children of …
The tiff between State Farm Florida and the Office of Insurance Regulation that has culminated in the insurer’s withdrawal from the state’s property market is disturbing. It’s not disturbing because an insurance company is leaving — that’s happened before, often …
Court Rulings Strike Fear That Surplus Lines Could Lose Freedom Have you ever seen anything like this in Florida? Never. I haven’t seen anything like this anywhere in the country. If it were a horror flick it might be titled, …
6.4% The workers’ compensation rate increase approved by Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty effective April 1. The increase reflects the impact from the Oct. 23 Florida Supreme Court opinion in the case of Emma Murray v. Mariner Health Inc. That …
