Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas B. Leonardi announced Monday that the Connecticut Insurance Department recovered nearly $1.8 million for policyholders and taxpayers in the second quarter of 2014. “The advent of the Affordable Care Act resulted in more people having health …
Risk International, based in Fairlawn, Ohio, announced that Mark Freiman has joined the outsourced risk management provider as a senior consultant. He will contribute his nearly 20 years of group benefits consulting experiences to the company’s newly launched Benefits Advisory …
Allstate Insurance Co.’s 10th annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report” ranks Brownsville, Texas, second safest among America’s 200 largest cities in terms of car collision frequency. According to the report, the average driver in Brownsville will experience an auto collision …
Tague Alliance has named John McLaren vice president of business development. Tague Alliance is an SIAA master agency, and McLaren’s focus is to expand growth of the SIAA and Tague Alliance brand in the Orange County and Inland Empire areas …
Detroit-area residents are shopping for appliances and home-repair supplies in droves after recent flooding damaged houses and the property inside. The Detroit News reports thousands of shoppers visited big-box appliance stores and local retailers over the weekend to purchase everything …
Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation announced it received the 2015 Florida workers’ compensation rate filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), which proposes a statewide average rate decrease of 2.5 percent — the first decrease in four years. …
Do you love your agency? Is it a Best Place to Work? If so, don’t miss this opportunity to nominate your agency to be named as one of Insurance Journal’s Best Agencies to Work in 2014. You must be a …
Slow-paced, sprawling Visalia ranks first in California and seventh nationally as safest among the 200 largest U.S. cities in terms of car collision frequency. Allstate Insurance Co. on Tuesday released its 10th annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report,” which contains …
A Delaware panel established to oversee efforts to keep the state’s workers compensation rates affordable is getting down to work. Delaware’s Workers Compensation Oversight Panel is charged with creating a new medical fee schedule that would result in a 33 …
Workers’ compensation benefits rose by 1.3 percent to $61.9 billion in 2012, while employer costs rose by 6.9 percent to $83.2 billion, according to a report released today by the National Academy of Social Insurance (the Academy). This growth in …
