Grand Forks County, N.D., residents are getting a look at a proposed new flood insurance rate map. Zoning administrator Bev Collings says it’s the first major change in the map since 1977. She says it’s long overdue. Officials asked for …
The Texas Apartment Association Workers’ Compensation Program has earned a 14 percent, or $395,000, dividend from Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Program administrators Michael Whorton and Charles Garner of Whorton Insurance Services in Austin said $158,072 of the total dividend was …
In West Virginia, where there’s roughly one deer for every two people and the largest city boasts an annual deer hunt within its boundaries, it’s no surprise the animals pose a common hazard for motorists. This week, insurance giant State …
A former lawmaker who faces a murder charge in the death of his ex-girlfriend has now been sued by the woman’s family. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the family of Amanda Ross filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Fayette County Circuit …
A federal judge in Pennsylvania is allowing a class-action claim against an insurance company accused of failing to pay overtime to claims adjusters that worked at a Pittsburgh-area office. U.S. District Judge Sean McLaughlin says Erie Indemnity Co. will have …
By networking existing databases and adding secure reporting and analytic functions, two insurance industry organization hope to create a nationwide information sharing system on cargo crimes. The rating and statistical organization ISO (Insurance Services Office) and the National Insurance Crime …
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. named a former Bank of America Corp. executive to be its new CEO, and he already has plans to introduce enhanced risk management after record losses at the 199-year-old insurer. Liam McGee, former head of …
Sears Holdings Corp. agreed to pay a record $6.2 million to settle a lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the department store retailer illegally fired disabled workers. U.S. District Judge Wayne Andersen in Chicago approved the settlement …
The former head of compliance overseeing Moody’s Corp.’s credit ratings business was routinely ignored when he warned that the firm was not properly monitoring municipal bond ratings, according to a letter obtained by Reuters Tuesday. Scott McCleskey, who is scheduled …
A U.S. Senate panel Tuesday rejected a government-run “public” insurance option as part of a broad healthcare overhaul, handing insurers an early victory and setting the stage for a long fight over one of the bill’s most contentious issues. The …
