A report from New Hampshire’s Health and Human Services Department says traumatic brain injuries have nearly doubled in the state over the past decade. The report says from 2001 to 2009, the number of people taken to emergency rooms for …
Towers Watson, a global professional services company, plans to acquire the business of the DaVinci Consulting Group, a boutique actuarial consulting firm that specializes in the long-term care insurance market, on or about November 1, 2012. The acquisition is subject …
WorkCompOne, an online insurance destination, has launched a new website focused on serving small business owners. “Main street retailers and professional service providers, such as accounting, legal, engineering and technology firms don’t garner the attention of more traditional insurance agents …
A Vancouver, Wash., restaurant linked to several dozen cases of salmonella has reopened. Clark County public health officials gave On The Border the go-ahead to reopen Oct. 15 although they still don’t know the source of the outbreak. The Columbian …
A West Fargo, N.D., man has pleaded guilty to his 14th drunken driving charge and been sent to prison. Sixty-year-old Kevin Tegtmeier was sentenced to four years behind bars, a year less than the maximum possible term requested by prosecutors. …
Lines of drinkers recently waited on a weekend night to have their intoxication levels checked and it doesn’t have anything to do with a sobriety checkpoint. Kansas City, Mo., police allowed drinkers to measure their blood alcohol content at a …
Things that go bump in the night could get bumpier on Halloween — so the Pennsylvania Insurance Department is reminding homeowners to use common sense on trick-or-treat night.Regulators caution that with so many unpredictable elements at play, the chances of …
Oklahoma’s attorney general delivered $20,000 to a Tulsa couple on Oct. 15, the first of hundreds of mortgage settlement checks to be given to homeowners who were victims of wrongful lending practices and in some cases lost their homes. “It …
A.M. Best Co. announced it has downgraded the financial strength rating to B+ (Good) from B++ (Good) and issuer credit rating to “bbb-” from “bbb” of Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Co. (Farmers) in Okarche, Okla. The outlook for both ratings …
Consumers who filed complaints with the Missouri Department of Insurance have received almost $8 million in additional claims payments from their insurance companies in the nine months of 2012. The department said it has recovered $7.7 million for consumers through …
