August 20, 2015
Cook Maran & Associates, an insurance broker with offices in East Hampton, Southampton and Melville, New York, as well as in Marlton and Fair Lawn, New Jersey, promoted four staff members to vice president and two staff members to assistant …
August 20, 2015
Ping An Insurance (Group) Co., China’s second-largest insurer, said profit jumped 62 percent in the first half of this year as a stock-market rally boosted investment returns. Net income rose to 34.6 billion yuan ($5.42 billion) in the period from …
August 20, 2015
The Grant County Sheriff’s Office says at least 36 homes have been destroyed by an Eastern Oregon wildfire, 10 more than previously reported. Gov. Kate Brown met Wednesday with victims of the fire near John Day and visited the command …
August 20, 2015
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has submitted its Jan. 1, 2016 pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance proposing advisory pure premium rates that average $2.45 per $100 of payroll. That WCIRB figure is 7.8 percent …
August 20, 2015
Danny became the first hurricane of the Atlantic season as its top winds grew to 75 miles per hour in the seas east of the Windward Islands. The Category 1 storm, about 1,090 miles (1,754 kilometers) from the islands, which …
August 20, 2015
Uber Technologies Inc.’s criminal background checks for drivers failed to prevent it from hiring registered sex offenders, identity thieves, burglars, a kidnapper and a convicted murderer, California prosecutors said. The district attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles escalated their …
August 20, 2015
The car-swallowing hole has been fixed but not forgotten at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky. Yellow tape now marks the boundaries of the cavity that became a sensation and put the museum on the map. And instead of a …
August 20, 2015
An attorney who calls himself the “Annoyance Lawyer” sued Uber Technologies Inc. over its robocall campaign attacking New York Mayor Bill de Blasio over his proposal to limit the number of drivers. Todd C. Bank sued on behalf of recipients …
August 20, 2015
ACE Commercial Risk Services (ACE CRS) announced several new products that expand its suite of specialty commercial products for small businesses. The products are available through ACE Solutions Fast Track, an online small business underwriting and quoting platform. The new …
August 20, 2015
In his ongoing efforts to foster a competitive private flood insurance market in Florida, state Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, recently requested help from the state’s Office of Insurance Regulation to obtain data from the federal government that justify the …