Authorities in Indiana have compiled nearly 300 reports of damage from last month’s tornado-packed storms in the Lafayette area as they work to boost Indiana’s appeal for federal disaster aid. Tippecanoe County emergency management agency staffers worked this week with …
A former Bay County Friend of the Court employee who filed a federal lawsuit in Michigan saying she was sexually harassed is getting a $250,000 settlement. The Bay City Times reports it obtained details of the settlement involving Patricia McIver …
Lansing, Mich.-based workers’ compensation insurer, Accident Fund Holdings Inc., has promoted several key executives, including: Frank Freund of East Lansing, Mich.; Lisa Corless of Lansing, Mich.; and Becky Holnagel of Okemos, Mich. Freund has been promoted to executive vice president …
SterlingRisk, a national insurance brokerage based in Woodbury, N.Y., announced that Ben Phillips has joined the firm as the Northeast private client practice leader. Phillips joins SterlingRisk with over nine years of expertise in insurance, having spent the first six …
A 76-year-old Providence, Rhode Island, woman must pay $10,000 in restitution on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses for allegedly collecting workers’ compensation benefits while she was employed. The state attorney general and state labor department director said …
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced its acquisition of Boston-based Longfellow Financial LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1999, Longfellow Financial is an employee benefits insurance broker that offers group employee benefits products and consulting services …
The security breach of credit and debit card data at Target Corp. is evidence of the increasing threats retailers face and a reminder that the U.S. lags behind much of the world in securing personal financial information. Target, the second-largest …
Members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation, led by Congressman Bill Keating, recently sent an open letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The lawmakers argued in their letter that when FEMA established the new flood maps for Massachusetts, it …
The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a woman injured in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Red Bank can proceed with her negligence lawsuit against the store. Jolyn Cullum filed the case after she was injured when a car driven …
A Dauphin Island woman wants to know the fate of her two pet deer after wildlife officials removed them and said they were a danger to the public. Staci Curtiss told the Mobile Press-Register that she had rescued the two …
