Oregonians are headed for a statewide vote on a new law that allows immigrants who can’t show they’re in the United States legally to obtain driver’s licenses. Secretary of State Kate Brown’s office in October said that opponents of the …
Jurors in October ordered a Columbia Gorge hospital to pay $2.4 million in compensatory damages to three victims of an anesthesiologist now serving a 23-year sentence for sex abuse and rape. One woman was awarded $700,000, a second was awarded …
A Texas lawmaker has asked the state insurance department to find ways to lower homeowners insurance rates. Texas has consistently been ranked, along with Florida and Louisiana, one of the three states with the highest homeowners insurance rates in the …
The Oklahoma Supreme Court, reversing a previous ruling, says a family injured in a 2006 auto accident cannot sue the Peoria Tribe or its Buffalo Run Casino, where the other driver in the crash had been drinking. The court’s 5-4 …
State Auto Insurance Companies President, Chairman and CEO Bob Restrepo has been elected chair of the board of governors of the 1,000-member Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI). Restrepo has previously served as chairman of the American Insurance Association. …
A judge in Arkansas has granted class-action status to a lawsuit that claims Philip Morris USA deliberately exaggerated the safety of its Marlboro Lights cigarettes. Attorneys for Philip Morris had argued that any lawsuits should be filed individually, but Pulaski …
Fraud remains a big threat to businesses, and new technologies are creating new ways for employees to embezzle and rip off their company. “The 2012 Marquet Report on Embezzlement” shows that the number of major embezzlements in the past year …
U.S. homeowners insurance is showing significant growth opportunities, says a new report from Aon Benfield, a reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon plc. The report, titled “Homeowners ROE Outlook: 2013 Update,” reviews the industry aggregate state level statutory financial …
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Historians may look at the year 2013 as a “cyber tipping-point” — the point at which businesses and governments finally realized the severity of the threats they were facing, according to Advisen, a New York-based commercial insurance research and data …
