When the latest computer forecast models couldn’t figure out where major Hurricane Joaquin was headed earlier this month, the National Weather Service ordered extra launches of one of its oldest tools — the weather balloon. Twice a day, in what …
A judge in Louisville has ruled that a local traffic school program run by the Jefferson County Attorney’s office is unconstitutional. Judge Sean Delahanty ruled the state law allowing such programs “is a poorly written statute that was rushed into …
University of Georgia researchers have a new study out that could tell motorists the most likely times for collisions with deer in different parts of the state. The research assessed available deer breeding information with reported accidents to calculate peak …
Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies added Chris Henderson as a senior field representative to promote targeted growth in Florida. The growth in the state includes the addition of the company’s multiline commercial insurance product – BizGUARD Plus – that encompasses …
Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Cos. recently added Mark Concklin as a senior field representative to promote targeted growth in Colorado and Utah. Concklin is responsible for identifying prospects for appointments while providing information about available resources and new developments to …
Activist investor Carl Icahn said he owns a “large stake” in American International Group Inc. and urged the insurer to spin off its life and mortgage units into public companies to avoid being tagged as a systemically important financial institution. …
The Hill, a popular Capitol Hill insider publication with political news and opinions, has placed five insurance groups and their lobbyists on its 2015 list of the top lobbyists in Washington for associations. The insurance trade groups making The Hill’s …
The premium for a mid-level plan offered on the federal government’s health insurance exchange will be up by 5 percent in New Jersey in 2016. But premiums will be lower, as expected, for people choosing a new plan that is …
The New Hampshire Insurance Department announced that it has approved the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s advisory loss cost and rating values filling to be effective Jan. 1, 2016. The approved voluntary loss cost change is a decrease of 5.9 …
A plan to make sure an underground St. Louis-area landfill fire doesn’t reach a cache of Cold War-era nuclear waste buried nearby will come before the end of 2015, an Environmental Protection Agency administrator said. Mark Hague, acting chief of …
