Georgia’s new chief privacy officer appointed earlier this month said she will focus on training school districts about the importance of both collecting and protecting data on Georgia students. The position was created by a new student privacy law passed …
Fidelis Group Holdings, LLC (FGH) with its subsidiary company Continental Underwriters, Ltd. (CUL), have launched a new Master Port Risk Program. According to H. Elder Brown, Jr., president and chief executive officer the Master Port Risk Program provides commercial vessel …
City officials in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, are calling for ride-hailing services like Uber to prove they’re commercially insured. The Portsmouth Herald reports that Assistant Mayor Jim Splaine released an amended ordinance this week that would mandate ride-hailing services to have …
Officials say 38 animals have died from a fire that engulfed an animal hospital in East Texas. Texas media outlets report 40 animals were at Kimbrough Animal Hospital in Longview when the fire started late on June 9. According to …
Ohio beekeepers say they’ve lost much of their beehive colonies this past year, and that keeping their bees healthy is becoming increasingly difficult. From April 2014 to April 2015, Ohio beekeepers reported losing nearly 50 percent of their colonies, according …
Ironshore Inc. has named Edward Mazman to lead the newly-established Real Estate Industry Practice group. Mazman, based in Boston, will assume the role in addition to his current responsibilities serving as executive vice president of the Ironshore U.S. Property unit. …
The parent company of Milwaukee, Wis.-based Assurant Health says it has reached agreement to sell some business lines and assets to National General Holdings Corp. as it exits the health insurance market. Time Insurance Co. (TIC) and John Alden Life …
A tugboat captain’s decision to try to beat a cargo ship into the Houston Ship Channel is the probable cause of a 2014 collision that spilled 168,000 gallons of oil that drifted up to 200 miles down the Texas Gulf …
A federal judge ordered a Texas company to pay $663 million in damages for failing to tell the government about design changes to highway guardrails that critics say made the systems more dangerous. Trinity Industries Inc. said it would appeal. …
The Insurance Society of Philadelphia (ISOP) announced Dianne Salter will assume the role of chair of ISOP’s Board of Directors. Salter will begin her two-year term on July 1. She succeeds John Sherlock, the outgoing ISOP board chair and current …
