The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New York (IIABNY) announced that president and CEO Richard Poppa will retire at the end of 2016 after leading the association for 20 years. Poppa has served as IIABNY’s chief staff executive officer …
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration announced on April 20 that the state’s workers’ compensation rates will rise an average 1.5 percent beginning July 1. It’s the first state-approved average workers’ comp rate increase in 15 years. Officials said this nominal …
The National Council on Compensation Insurance says it is seeing generally stable trends in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont — five New England states where NCCI serves as a licensed rating and statistical organization. “Overall, the NCCI …
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin has signed new legislation, H-538, that allows sponsored or industrial insured captives that are inactive to enter a dormant status. This status would allow such types of captives to be exempted from annual premium taxes but …
A Boise, Idaho ski and snowboard park developer has agreed to pay the federal government $10,000 to settle a claim that it violated asbestos removal regulations. Gateway Parks LLC was accused of not giving the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proper …
Phoenix, Ariz.-based CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Co. named Marc E. Schmittlein president and chief executive officer. Schmittlein will replace President and CEO Donald A. Smith, Jr., who previously announced his plans to retire effective July 1 after 16 years as the …
Building in flood zones is about to get harder across much of Oregon, due to new federal recommendations. The government published the recommendations, called a biological opinion, in response to a lawsuit from environmental groups. The Audubon Society of Portland, …
Workplace deaths in Washington fell to a near-historic low in 2015, according to a Department of Labor & Industries report out in mid-April. Last year there were 58 work-related deaths in the state, 18 fewer than in 2014, and L&I …
Juan Ortiz Velazquez, 27, of San Jose, Calif., and owner of Carlos Auto Body, was arrested with seven other suspects in April and charged with multiple counts of felony insurance fraud for allegedly filing 20 fraudulent claims with four insurance …
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will headline an event this month at a Southern California university to benefit insurance students. Schwarzenegger will be joined by Robert Hartwig, an economist and president of the Insurance Information Institute, who could be making …
