December 28, 2011
Marin County in Northern California is pumping more money into its legal battle with Deloitte Consulting LLP over a $30 million computer system that county officials say was riddled with problems. The Marin Independent Journal reports that county supervisors earlier …
December 28, 2011
State transportation officials who declined to fund a new pedestrian walkway over a southern New Jersey highway cannot be held responsible for a 2003 accident that killed a boy and injured his younger brother, a state appellate court has ruled. …
December 28, 2011
Members of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) will be able to access a new insurance program at the start of the new year. The ECPA has partnered with Ministry Service Group, a division of Market Financial Group, to offer …
December 28, 2011
A New York court granted Aon Risk Services Northeast a preliminary injunction involving its former executive. Last week, the Supreme Court of the State of New York said it is temporarily barring Michael Cusack, the former Aon executive who is …
December 28, 2011
Many law schools try to attract more applicants by showing off how well their graduates do in the real world. The schools tell their prospective students about their graduates’ high employment and salary figures. But critics say some schools are …
December 28, 2011
Auto insurance claim costs countrywide have recently increased, reversing previous trends of declining or relatively stable costs. A new report from the Insurance Research Council (IRC), “Trends in Auto Injury Claims, 2011 Edition,” documents auto injury claim trends, both countrywide …
December 28, 2011
Title insurance, mortgage and financial services provider Fidelity National Financial Inc. said it will sell an 85 percent interest in its personal lines business to WT Holdings Inc. of Memphis for approximately $119 million. WT Holdings will acquire Fidelity National …
December 28, 2011
Experts say there’s no single reason for the big drop in alcohol-related crashes and deaths in Michigan over the past decade. Michigan had 4,007 crashes linked to alcohol in 2010, down 38 percent from 6,485 in 2001, according to police …
December 28, 2011
Zurich Financial Services Group has announced the appointment of two executives within its Investment Management sector as follows: Hansjörg Germann (46, Swiss and Italian citizen) has been appointed to the position of Head of Strategy Development, effective January 1, 2012. …
December 28, 2011
A report from catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide notes that Windstorm Dagmar has moved across Russia north of St. Petersburg and begun to dissipate. Its hurricane-force winds caused power outages, downed trees, landslides and other disruption across northern Scandinavia starting …