Lawyers clashed this week before Ohio’s Supreme Court on whether a university’s insurers should be liable for a 2007 bus crash that killed seven people, including five student baseball players. An attorney for the estate of one of the victims …
Scores of attorneys will jam a federal courtroom today to argue for almost immediate access to emails and other documents from BP Plc and its business partners as the legal fight over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill heats up. …
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was hit with a gender bias lawsuit by three women who said Wall Street’s most profitable bank maintains an “outdated corporate culture” that systematically deprives women of pay and promotions available to men. The plaintiffs are …
The tragic gas pipeline explosion in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there. Utilities have been under pressure for years to …
Charlie Adams and Angela James have joined the RT Specialty property team in Orange County, Calif. Each brings more than 20 years of experience in the excess and surplus property marketplace. Their expertise in course of construction risks and large …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California announced it will be amending its recommended rate filing to the state insurance commissioner, recommending a 27.7 percent increase in the claim cost benchmark, instead of a 29.6 percent increase in the …
Texas recorded a preliminary total of 480 work-related fatalities in 2009, a 4 percent increase compared to the revised 2008 total of 463 fatalities.the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation has reported. Nationally, there were 4,340 fatal work …
Houston-based HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. appointed Mark W. Callahan executive vice president and HCC’s chief actuarial officer effective Aug. 9, 2010. Callahan was previously the chief risk, underwriting, and actuarial services officer for XL Insurance. During 12 years there he …
One of the concerns expressed to me in the comments to one of my previous blogs is how do I make sure new staff takes care of my customers the way I want them to? Most small agencies are owned …
Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit over strip searches for nonviolent offenders. County solicitor Michael Wojcik tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review the county agreed to settle because the courts have recently favored plaintiffs in …
