September 11, 2012
Energi, a developer and underwriter of insurance products, has opened three new satellite offices across the United States to better serve the company’s policyholders and insurance brokers. The new Westport, Conn. office opened in August; the Carlsbad, Calif. location opened …
September 11, 2012
As the fourth anniversary of a deadly Metrolink crash approaches, many survivors of the incident in Southern California say a federal liability cap has left them inadequately compensated. Just a year after a judge rationed a compensation fund among 126 …
September 11, 2012
The Tucson Unified School District in Arizona has agreed to pay a former school psychologist $180,000 to settle a retaliation claim. Rose Hamway filed a civil suit in U.S. District Court in Tucson, claiming she was retaliated against by TUSD …
September 11, 2012
A Santa Fe jury has awarded $2 million to a man whose back surgery was so badly botched he suffered cardiac arrest and required three more surgeries. Matt McCann entered Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe in …
September 11, 2012
Kauai County, Hawaii will pay $120,000 to settle a federal case by a former assistant prosecuting attorney who claimed she was subjected to racial harassment because she’s white, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced . Shannon Weigel, 27, filed …
September 11, 2012
Colorado mining authorities have dug through a mountainside and reopened the dark granite shaft of an abandoned mine that turned deadly, trying to find options for dealing with one of the West’s worst environmental problems. The Pennsylvania Mine, perched above …
September 11, 2012
San Ramon, Calif.-based Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Connie Rowe vice president and business development executive in the firm’s San Ramon-based Programs Group. Rowe will expand her support of EPIC’s highly successful insurance programs for McDonald’s owners and operators to …
September 11, 2012
Merger and acquisition trends in the United States trended upward from 2009 to the first half of 2012, a new industry report reveals. So far the U.S. remains the most active country for mergers and acquisitions overall accounting for around …
September 11, 2012
Eleven years after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the new multibillion-dollar World Trade Center once again dominates the lower Manhattan skyline. Hundreds of construction workers are at the 16-acre site every day, and tourists snap thousands of photos of …
September 11, 2012
OneBeacon Technology Insurance (OBTI), a member of OneBeacon Insurance Group, appointed Duncan Morrison as assistant vice president – International. In this new role, Morrison will facilitate foreign admitted placements through the company’s network of European relationships. He reports to OBTI …