The Federal Aviation Administration is establishing a broad-based advisory committee to provide advice on key unmanned aircraft integration issues. Also, under a new policy, the FAA will also make it easier for students to fly unmanned aircraft as part of …
Leavitt Group in Utah has named Rachael Woolsey vice president of personal lines. Leavitt Group also named Kelly Pareti director of voluntary benefits enrollment. Pareti will work with employee benefits agencies to provide enrollment and voluntary benefits solutions to clients. …
Most people aren’t prepared for the big one. If there was one common theme at a three-day earthquake conference in downtown Long Beach, Calif., that was it. The National Earthquake Conference that took place in early May is a quadrennial …
The Houston Field Division of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) says the fire that caused an explosion that killed 15 people at the West Fertilizer Co. facility in West, Texas, three years ago was intentionally …
The Oklahoma Supreme Court dealt another blow to the state’s 2013 workers’ comp overhaul by finding unconstitutional a provision of the Oklahoma Administrative Workers’ Compensation Act pertaining to the deferral of permanent partial disability benefits. Other recent rulings have represented …
As the number of earthquakes in Oklahoma exploded into the hundreds in the last few years, nearly a dozen insurance companies moved to limit their exposure, often at the expense of homeowners, a Reuters examination has found. Nearly 3,000 pages …
New Orleans-based insurance and risk management firm, Gillis, Ellis & Baker (GEB), promoted Jeff Howard to shareholder and vice president. Howard joined GEB in 2011 as an insurance producer. He works with both personal lines and commercial property/casualty clients, where …
As the new chief information officer and senior vice president in charge of business transformation at property/casualty carrier, GuideOne Insurance, Doug Cretsinger faced some big challenges. He managed a staff of around 100 team members plus another 200 or so …
The Ohio Insurance Institute reports that preliminary estimates of an April storm outbreak caused insured property losses of up to $57.8 million in Ohio alone. Several other states, including Illinois and Indiana, were impacted by the storms. According to the …
Law enforcement officers in Michigan arrested more than 560 motorists for drunken driving during a stepped-up enforcement effort earlier this year. The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning on May 4 announced the results of the “Drive Sober or Get …
