A central Florida woman has surrendered her nursing license after she was charged with placing hot sauce into the mouths of two sleeping dementia patients. Tracie Nellis was charged last summer with battery on a person age 65 or older …
Members of Georgia’s congressional delegation have written a letter to Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed calling the termination of the city’s former fire chief a violation of free speech and religious freedom. Six Republican Georgia representatives wrote a letter to Reed …
A.M. Best said Wednesday it has downgraded the financial strength rating to A (Excellent) from A+ (Superior) and the issuer credit ratings to “a+” from “aa-” of The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire Inc. …
Work-related fatal injuries in the New York metropolitan area (the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa. Metropolitan Statistical Area) totaled 152 in 2013, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The 2013 figure was down …
The government should spend more money safeguarding railroad crossings that are “accidents waiting to happen,” two U.S. senators said on Feb. 15. Sens. Charles Schumer and Richard Blumenthal spoke at New York’s Grand Central Terminal, the departure point for the …
Last year was another record-setting year for Delaware’s captive insurance industry, the state’s Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart recently announced. Delaware’s captive bureau licensed 87 captive insurers and 141 series business units in 2014, Stewart said on Feb. 12. “I …
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Wednesday issued a notice to property/casualty insurers doing business in California advising them that so-called “price optimization” in rate making is unfairly discriminatory and violates the law. Price optimization is the practice of setting …
An explosion and fire at Exxon Mobil Corp.’s Torrance, California, refinery sent ash spraying on nearby cars and burst windows of surrounding buildings Wednesday. The explosion occurred near a fluid catalytic cracking unit of the refinery, according to David Campbell, …
New York’s attorney general says he’s submitting legislation to combat the plague of abandoned properties, revising a bill lawmakers failed to enact last year. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman would make banks and other mortgage lenders responsible for maintaining properties abandoned …
International insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro Ltd. has opened a Miami office to drive business in Florida, as well as serve as an international wholesale hub into Latin America. According to John Sutton, president of Integro’s international operations …
