Massachusetts insurance agency Provider Insurance Group has hired Peter A. DiNardo as a commercial lines account executive. DiNardo has more than 12 years of experience, specializing in property and casualty insurance for the technology industry. Before becoming an insurance agent, …
The North Carolina-based Smart Choice Agents Program, which says it currently provides personal and commercial lines markets for some 3,000 independent agencies in 32 states, is expanding into six additional states. The program is moving into Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New …
An “active to extremely active” hurricane season is expected for the Atlantic Basin this year, according to the seasonal outlook issued today by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center – a division of the National Weather Service. Across the entire Atlantic Basin …
The Michigan Supreme Court says the wrong address is not a reason to stop a woman from filing a medical malpractice lawsuit against her former eye doctor. The court’s 4-3 decision this week reinstated a lawsuit against David Gossage and …
The insurance company paying jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford’s legal bills said this week it is tired of supporting his revolving door of attorneys and already has spent more than $6 million on lawyers from 10 firms to defend …
A settlement has been approved in a wrongful death lawsuit involving former major leaguer Jim Leyritz, who was charged in a drunken driving manslaughter crash. An attorney for the family of the woman killed in the December 2007 crash said …
Three companies that sold lead-based paint and were sued by the state in a landmark case cannot recover money they spent defending themselves in the lawsuit, a judge has ruled. Rhode Island in February 2006 won a jury verdict that …
The Massachusetts Medical Society says the state’s doctors are under increasing pressure from a series of factors — including malpractice insurance prices — a trend that could undermine patient care. The doctor’s group report released Tuesday cited four major concerns, …
The threat of an above-average 2010 Atlantic hurricane season has heightened over the past month and it now promises to be “a hell of a year,” a leading U.S. forecaster said Wednesday. William Gray, the hurricane forecast pioneer who founded …
A judge has ordered the pretrial merger of at least 40 California state court lawsuits filed against Toyota over cars that have raced out of control, including a case stemming from the fatal crash that sparked the automaker’s recall crisis. …
