July 19, 2016
Takata Corp., the air-bag supplier behind the industry’s largest ever recall, routinely manipulated results of air-bag inflator tests reported to Honda Motor Co., according to an ongoing audit commissioned by the parts maker and its biggest customer. Takata engineers removed …
July 19, 2016
DuPont Co. and Dow Chemical Co. must tell shareholders before next week’s merger vote that they may face exposure to costly potential damages from claims that a chemical used to make Teflon caused cancer and other ailments, community activists told …
July 19, 2016
Los Angeles, CA, July 19, 2016- Worldwide Facilities was chosen this year as a second-place winner of the 2016 AAMGA Marketing Award for its print marketing campaign. The award singles out exceptional advertising and communications campaigns in the insurance industry …
July 19, 2016
The Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents (DIA) reduced the assessment that private employers pay to the state on workers’ compensation policies to 5.6 percent of the policy premium for the new fiscal year, down from 5.75 percent during the last …
July 19, 2016
World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. was sued on behalf of Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka and dozens of other retired wrestlers who claim the company hid the long-term effects of neurological injuries from years of being pounded in and out of the ring. …
July 19, 2016
A study by two University of Southern Mississippi researchers on the effectiveness of emergency alerts has revealed some surprising results. David Cochran and Bandana Kar, associate professors in the Department of Geography and Geology, recently concluded work with the Department …
July 19, 2016
The Florida Department of Financial Services is enhancing its law enforcement strategy to fight fraud in the state by integrating its current units housed within DFS and forming the Division of Investigative and Forensic Services, according to a statement from …
July 18, 2016
Wisconsin-based M3 Insurance has promoted Tim Cleary, Matt Cranney, Nezih Hasanoglu and Zach Penshorn to vice president positions. Cleary, Cranney, Hasanoglu and Penshorn have accepted these leadership roles, respectively, in the areas of Sales for Property/Casualty, Insurance Operations, Business Development …
July 18, 2016
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr says the Consumer Services Division (CSD) of the Arkansas Insurance Department recovered $1,580,421 for Arkansas insurance customers in the first six months of 2016. The amounts recovered for Arkansas consumers by CSD are in excess …
July 18, 2016
The Centers for Disease Control is assisting in the investigation of a case of Zika in a Utah resident who is a family contact of the elderly Utah resident who died in late June. The deceased patient had traveled to …