Jack Kingston is U.S. Representative for the First Congressional District of Georgia, which encompasses 17 counties in Southeast Georgia including the entirety of the state’s coastline. He has represented the district since 1983. But the Savannah resident – and former …
Katrina Frye Shealy was the only woman in her insurance agency for years. It turns out that that was useful experience for her political career. Today Shealy is the sole woman in the South Carolina Senate. “It’s lonely sometimes with …
An investigation led by former FBI Director Louis Freeh cleared the BP claims administrator of misconduct in handling settlement payouts from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but found some of his staff took kickbacks for referrals. …
The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which forecasters had predicted would be more active than normal, has turned out to be something of a dud so far as an unusual calm has been hanging over the tropics. As the season enters …
Wholesale insurance broker Swett & Crawford appointed Nancy Gibbons as vice president of human resources. She is based in Atlanta. Gibbons has held various key roles in her career including vice president of human resources for the securities brokerage operations …
New York City’s annual report card says the number of residents killed in traffic accidents plunged considerably over the last year. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s management report said on Sept. 20 that in the fiscal year ending in June, 261 people …
Florida’s largest insurer could be shifting thousands more of its policyholders away from the state-created company and into private insurance companies. The head of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. announced Friday that as many as 200,000 customers from across the state …
The mandate that large employers provide health care coverage to their employees has been put off until 2015, but some businesses have already started changing health care benefits. Still, many local employers in Bucks County, Penn., say they have little …
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Sept. 18 defended his decision to use federal Superstorm Sandy recovery money to help rebuild businesses burned by a devastating boardwalk fire.Christie said boardwalk-area businesses in Seaside Park and Seaside Heights are entitled to …
The floods in Colorado caused an estimated $2 billion in economic losses, according to a report from catastrophe modeling firm EQECAT. The flooding has been blamed for multiple fatalities, it’s estimated 1,500 homes have been destroyed, and some 20,000 homes …
