Cincinnati Financial Corp., in Cincinnati, Ohio, has named Jacob F. Scherer chief insurance officer of The Cincinnati Insurance Co. Scherer currently is executive vice president of the company, a post he will retain. His executive oversight responsibility for the insurance …
New Jersey motorists have another reason to frown about their driver’s license photos. The state has banned motorists from making big smiles because such expressions don’t work with facial recognition software. The policy has gone mostly unnoticed since taking effect …
The Louisiana Consortium of Insurance and Financial Services at Louisiana State University-Shreveport will offer a pre-licensing course on property and casualty insurance at McNeese State University. The course is set for 8 a.m.-6 p.m. on Oct. 12-13 and Oct. 19-20. …
A bank is suing to foreclose on the Springdale, Ark., home of Lt. Gov. Mark Darr, who says he didn’t realize how far behind he was on the payments. Darr won the lieutenant governor’s post in 2010. He is a …
Two University of Akron employees, including a Republican candidate for Summit County, Ohio sheriff, have resigned their positions after a university investigation concluded they violated the school’s sexual harassment policy. Sheriff candidate Randy Rivers and his supervisor, Michael Jalbert, stepped …
An auto insurance company will pay close to $345,000 in restitution to Massachusetts consumers and an additional $50,000 to the state as the result of an investigation alleging that policyholders with clean driving records were subject to improper non-renewal. Massachusetts …
The Livingston Parish School Board will cut the district’s property insurance coverage in half to keep from paying an additional $224,000 in annual premiums. The Advocate reports the board voted unanimously to lower the district’s property insurance policy limit from …
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck is urging that the city appeal a jury’s decision to award $5.7 million to a convicted felon who was shot by police and paralyzed. The Los Angeles Times reported that Beck’s reaction on Saturday …
Federal regulators say Kinder Morgan Upstream LLC has agreed to pay $316,000 for violating risk management plan provisions at its natural gas plants in Casper and Douglas, Wyo. The Environmental Protection Agency said the company has agreed to establish new …
Wyoming workplace safety regulators have handed down a dozen citations and are seeking more than $60,000 in fines against Sinclair Oil for a refinery fire that injured two workers. The May 25 fire at the Sinclair Refinery in Sinclair in …
