January 16, 2013
Specialist lines underwriting agency CFC has launched a new fully combined modular policy designed exclusively for online retailers. The new product, WEB, covers the cyber exposures of online retailers, as well as the more traditional commercial general liability insurance. WEB …
January 16, 2013
The Louisiana Office of Conservation has modified orders requiring Texas Brine Co. LLC to assess the status of sediments under an 8.5-acre sinkhole in northern Assumption Parish, prompting the company to withdraw a lawsuit filed in December 2012 against the …
January 16, 2013
The parents of two Texas boys killed when a pickup truck ran over their tent in a North Dakota campground last summer have returned to North Dakota to lobby the state Legislature for tougher drunken driving laws. Alaries Ruiz, 5, …
January 16, 2013
In a heavily guarded store just southwest of Houston, twin .50-caliber “Ma Deuce” machine guns rise up side by side from a mount that could be bolted to the deck of a warship or truck bed. The guns can fire …
January 16, 2013
Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Saint Louis, Mo.-based brokerages Welsch Flatness and Lutz Inc. (WFL) and Construction Insurance Partners (CIP). By combining the existing USI office in Saint Louis with WFL and CIP, USI Insurance Services becomes one of the …
January 16, 2013
Allied World Bermuda has launched Constellation, a suite of five excess casualty coverage enhancements combined into one package that complements its current portfolio of excess casualty products. These enhancements will be added to follow-form occurrence policies issued by the Bermuda …
January 16, 2013
Safer roads and more traffic enforcement have helped reduce traffic fatalities in Utah to their lowest level in more than 50 years. The Utah Department of Transportation said traffic accidents claimed 215 lives last year, a 12-percent drop over 2011 …
January 16, 2013
The federal agency operating Hoover Dam must correct 58 health and safety violations that investigators found in recent inspections at the massive Colorado River water retention and hydroelectric power plant east of Las Vegas. Inspectors for the federal Occupational Safety …
January 16, 2013
Blue Cross of California is being sued over a new program that bars AIDS patients from using local pharmacies to get their medications. The group Consumer Watchdog sued the insurer last week in San Diego on behalf of a patient, …
January 16, 2013
An Arizona highway safety official says the percentage of DUI arrests related to prescription and illegal drugs is up even as overall DUI arrests go down. The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety says the number of DUI arrests dropped by …