An accident on Lake Hamilton two years ago led to a new Arkansas law that takes effect this week, setting the minimum age of 16 for a solo operator of a personal watercraft. The new law is known as Rachel’s …
The Houston, Texas, chapter of the National Association of Insurance Women has installed new officers for 2009-2010. The newly installed leadership board includes: President Deborah Currie; President-elect Joanne Pearson; Vice President Tiney Taylor; Secretary Elizabeth Clay; Treasurer Margaret Parker; Finance …
The Texas Oil & Gas Association (TxOGA) workers’ compensation purchasing group has earned a $4.5 million dividend from Texas Mutual Insurance Company. This marks the largest group dividend in Texas Mutual’s history, the company said. It is based primarily on …
A group of private equity investors, including affiliates of The Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, is launching a new life insurance and benefits brokerage serving the middle market and small businesses, Insphere Insurance Solutions. This new company expects …
A federal agency has opened an investigation into the death of an operator of Walt Disney World’s monorail train in Florida. The investigation launched Monday by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration could take as long as six months to …
West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline says her state’s one-year old privatized workers’ compensation system is offering better claims administration, lower costs for employers and better treatment of injured workers. In 2005, the state approved the privatization of the …
Five people working on Independence Day fireworks shows were killed by explosions, four of them by a single blast that rocked Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The fifth died after an explosion at a fireworks show …
It will take a compromise on a government option for insurance if the Senate is to agree on a health care overall before next month’s break, according to two senators. President Barack Obama is pushing for an Aug. 8 deadline …
Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, former chief executive of American International Group Inc., fabricated documents and lied under oath in a bid to rewrite history and cloud who is the rightful beneficiary of a valuable block of AIG stock, AIG lawyer Ted …
Marsh announced that it has appointed John Nicholson as Risk and Governance Director of Marsh in the UK, a newly created position within the company. He will lead Marsh’s ongoing program to develop and embed robust risk management and governance …
