May 4, 2016
Roamnet Insurance Marketing in Ontario, Calif. has named Rusty Manzo director of marketing. He reports directly to Anthony Amorelli, president. Manzo will be responsible for new business development and will bring his expertise to existing Roamnet agents and brokers. Manzo …
May 4, 2016
Johnson & Johnson must pay $55 million to a 62-year-old South Dakota woman who blamed her ovarian cancer on the company’s talcum powder in the second such trial loss this year. J&J is accused in more than 1,000 lawsuits in …
May 4, 2016
Valerie Ann Verdugo, 38, of Bakersfield, Calif., is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on felony insurance fraud charges for obtaining insurance coverage without paying the carrier on those policies for more than a decade. Verdugo, a licensed agent, surrendered herself …
May 4, 2016
Baton Rouge, La.-based LCTA Workers’ Comp and Prime Occupational Medicine announced a partnership the firms say will not only provide greater health care resources to the employees of LCTA policyholders, but will also help reduce workers’ compensation-related medical costs for …
May 4, 2016
Johana Magnolia Paredes, 45, of Bellflower, Calif. was arrested by California Department of Insurance detectives on two felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud after allegedly misrepresenting her injuries to collect $39,953 in disability payments that she was not entitled …
May 4, 2016
Vermont Lt. Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican candidate for governor, has cast an unusual tie-breaking vote in favor of lightening the penalty for riding a motorcycle without a helmet. A bill on the Senate floor last Friday preserved the fine …
May 4, 2016
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that the 2016-17 state budget includes $9 million to cover the cost of lost wages and health care expenses for volunteers who contracted illnesses at the World Trade Center site following the terror …
May 4, 2016
The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) has issued a bulletin reminding carriers that “non-cumulation” policy provisions and endorsements in occurrence-based liability policies are not permissible under Vermont law. DFR Commissioner Susan L. Donegan said in the Insurance Bulletin No. …
May 4, 2016
Lockton announced on Wednesday that it will create two new business teams to align its Texas operations. Lockton’s Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Fort Worth property/casualty operations will combine into a single operation under the leadership of Tim Kelly, chairman …
May 4, 2016
Walsh Duffield Companies Inc., an independent insurance agency based in Buffalo, New York, announced that it has acquired Don Allen Agency Inc., based in Rochester, New York. Terms of the transaction, which became effective May 1, were not disclosed. This …