Workers’ compensation insurers are looking to technology to deliver operating efficiencies, underwriting insights and product development as they navigate a fragmented market with high sensitivity to state regulation, According to technology research and consulting firm Novarica in its latest report, …
In the three years that Springfield police officer Mike Massey has been a motorcycle traffic enforcement officer, he’s seen it all when it comes to cellphone use and driving. In addition to witnessing drivers talking or texting on their cellphones …
Workers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico were contaminated after radioactive particles were released into the air inside the lab’s plutonium facility. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the lab accident last month was the second time …
It will take at least months and likely years to fully recover from devastating wildfires that ripped through Northern California earlier this month, destroying at least 8,900 structures and killing 42 people, Sonoma County officials said . “We don’t control …
In an ideal world, anyone who experiences harassment at work would head directly to the human resource department. That’s where a sensitive, well-trained professional would conduct an “immediate and impartial” investigation followed by “appropriate action to remediate or prevent the …
Global insurance broker Aon said it will acquire Henderson Insurance Broking Group, an independent UK-based insurance broker. Terms were not disclosed. Aon anticipates completing the acquisition in December. Henderson Insurance Broking Group is one of the UK’s largest independent brokers, …
Specialist insurer Beazley continues to build its international specialty lines team, with the appointments of Estefania Taboada and Ana Misol as financial lines underwriters in Barcelona. Their appointments follow the appointment in May 2017 of Lorena Segovia to the newly …
Standard and Poor’s and Fitch held their credit ratings for Britain unchanged on Friday [Oct. 27], but both remained gloomy about the outlook due to the likelihood of the country reaching a bad deal in its divorce talks with the …
Lawley, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based, independent insurance broker, has hired loss control veteran Bob Overhoff Jr. as loss control manager. Previously the director of corporate safety at LPCiminelli, Overhoff Jr. will work out of Lawley’s headquarters in Buffalo, N.Y., helping customers …
A pharmacist at a facility whose tainted drugs sparked a nationwide meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people was cleared Wednesday of murder but was convicted of mail fraud and racketeering. Jurors said prosecutors failed to prove Glenn Chin was responsible …
