Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage reached $15,745 this year, up four percent from last year, with workers on average paying $4,316 toward the cost of their coverage, according to a new report from the non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation. …
Minnesota safety officials say the number of pedestrian deaths has risen sharply this year. Twenty-three pedestrians have died in Minnesota this year — the deadliest in the last five years. Last year at this time, 14 people had died after …
The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department is teaming with an Amish group known as the Northern Indiana Safety Association to try to educate people about how to safely operate horse-drawn vehicles on public roads. The effort comes in the wake of …
A prison nurse isn’t immune from being sued over an inmate’s 2009 death following a violent seizure from alcohol withdrawals, a federal appeals court panel ruled. Nurse Jennifer McCune had sought immunity as a government employee in the death of …
State insurance commissioners in the U.S. have agreed to adopt a code that helps track insurers doing business in multiple countries. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) said it will add the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) to insurance industry …
CRC|Crump has signed an agreement with Preferred Concepts in New York to acquire select assets of the company’s Preferred Brokerage business unit. Terms were not disclosed. J.C. Sparling, who led Preferred Brokerage, will be joining CRC|Crump as a senior vice …
The Gibraltar Group, a risk and insurance advisory firm based in Lubbock, Texas, announced it has appointed Dr. Bruce Baker as vice president of Information Security, and expanded its risk and loss management RiskIMPACT process to include NetworkGUARD. Cybercrime accounts …
Rocaton Investment Advisors, an investment advisory consulting firm based in Norwalk, Conn., has expanded its insurance team with the hiring of Michael Luft as a managing director. Luft is joining Rocaton after four years at Ariel Holdings Ltd., an insurance …
Marsh, the insurance broking and risk management division of Marsh & McLennan Cos., has promoted Liz Flynn to the newly created position of president of its Insurance Services Businesses unit.The Insurance Services Businesses unit is a new grouping of several …
In the past 12 years, only eight reinsurers have been declared insolvent despite paying claims of more than $150 billion from events including the World Trade Center attacks, hurricanes Rita, Wilma and Katrina, the Great Tohoku earthquake, and the Thailand …
