Nearly 90 fires were reported near Ohio State’s campus early in the morning on Jan. 13 after the Buckeyes won the first national title game in college football’s playoffs, the Columbus Fire Department said. The fires involved trash bins, Dumpsters …
New York’s turf war on wheels reached fever pitch Monday as City Council members grilled representatives of the app-based Uber service — a fierce competitor of the city’s 13,000 yellow cabs hailed with a flailing hand. When first offered in …
State Treasurer John Kennedy says audits of life insurance company policies have uncovered more than $31 million in unclaimed property for beneficiaries in the past eight years. The Treasury Department discovered the benefits after comparing the outstanding policies of a …
Prosecutors say a former insurance agent in Kansas has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for stealing from his clients. The U.S. attorney’s office said that 43-year-old Jason Matthew Pennington of Wichita pleaded guilty to two counts of wire …
A former top deputy of Republican Gov.-elect Greg Abbott is taking over the Texas Department of Insurance. David Mattax was named commissioner on Jan. 12. He is currently a deputy attorney general who took the lead defending Republican-drawn Texas voting …
A DuPont and Co pesticide plant where four people died in a gas leak in November had been cited for emissions violations by a state agency on several occasions before the accident, the Houston Chronicle reported. The newspaper cited public …
Fidelis Group Holdings LLC (FGH) and its subsidiary, Continental Underwriters Ltd., a have formed an ocean cargo division and named Doug Fischer and Crystal Prout as managing directors of the unit. The new ocean cargo division will be based out …
Insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro has promoted Ethan Crain to Boston operations leader, and hired Peter Lavery as a principal in the Boston office.
A Virginia judge has ordered a new trial on damages in a coal contract dispute between Massey Energy and the owner of three defunct coal companies. In May 2014, a jury in Buchanan County, Virginia, awarded $4 million to Hugh …
Stateline Insurance & Financial Services, an independent agency in East Providence, Rhode Island, has hired Kellie Dougherty as commercial lines representative.
