Texas State Rep. Vicki Truitt of Keller has filed HB 1158 which would double fines for drivers guilty of traffic violations while using handheld wireless devices, the Texas House of Representatives reported. “Nationally, more and more people are seeing the …
A federal judge in New Orleans has scheduled the first four trials for a batch of lawsuits filed on behalf of hurricane victims who claim they were exposed to potentially toxic fumes while living in government-issued trailers. An order issued …
Insurers such as Zurich and Farmers have announced they are sending catastrophe response teams to Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, areas pummeled by severe weather earlier this week. Especially hard hit by a cluster of tornados on Feb. 10 was Lone …
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has upheld the efforts of the state’s wind insurance pool to collect millions of dollars in past assessments from six insurance companies. The insurers had claimed that the Mississippi Windpool Underwriting Association was wrong to …
Julianne Bowler, former commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance, has joined Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based Narragansett Bay Insurance Co. as a senior consultant for corporate and strategic initiatives. Bowler served as commissioner from 2002 to 2007. While commissioner, she established …
One week after Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm called on auto insurance companies to freeze their rates, five insurers have said they will comply. In a Feb. 3 order, Granholm asked each automobile insurance company doing business in Michigan to pledge …
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 …
Ohio State University argues it’s not responsible for the death of a Pennsylvania freshman pinned by a dormitory elevator in 2006. In a court document filed this week, the university says in response to a lawsuit that Andrew Polakowski’s own …
The survivors of four Blackwater Worldwide contractors killed in a grisly ambush in Iraq five years ago have suffered yet another setback in their legal battle with the company. A federal administrative law judge in North Carolina ruled last week …
Bermuda-based Validus Holdings plans to release its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, after the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange today, Thursday, February 12, 2009. The Company will hold …
