March 8, 2018
The National Transportation Safety Board says it found several safety issues during its investigation of a 2015 rail yard death at a Pine Bluff packaging plant. The agency says it found illicit drug use by employees, inappropriate use of cellphones …
March 8, 2018
The race is on for the California insurance commissioner posts as we are nearly three months from the primary, but you wouldn’t know it by speaking to people in the insurance industry. Most insurance groups and associations like to keep …
March 8, 2018
U.S. health insurer Cigna Corp. struck a $52-billion deal to buy pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) Express Scripts Holding Co on Thursday, looking for new ways to hold onto their profits as the industry faces greater scrutiny for rising healthcare costs. …
March 8, 2018
The Texas Supreme Court has disagreed with the decision of a lower court to exclude, without having watched it, a company’s surveillance video of an injured employee in a workers’ compensation case. Because it found the lower court erred in …
March 8, 2018
Fresh from sealing its biggest ever deal, Sanlam Ltd. is still scouring Africa for more acquisitions to extend its lead as the continent’s largest financial-services company outside of banking. The Cape Town-based insurer will spend $1.1 billion to take full …
March 8, 2018
For the second time in three days, an earthquake stronger than magnitude 4.0 has been recorded in northern Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 4.1 magnitude quake hit early Tuesday afternoon near the town of Amorita. Local officials say …
March 8, 2018
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed over a natural gas rig explosion in southeastern Oklahoma that killed five men — three from Oklahoma, one from Texas and one from Colorado. The lawsuit by Dianna Waldridge, the widow of 60-year-old …
March 8, 2018
The family of a man who died in a 2016 Sioux Falls, S.D., building collapse has filed two lawsuits alleging the developer and construction company were responsible for the tragedy. Construction worker Ethan McMahon died Dec. 2, 2016, in the …
March 8, 2018
Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc., headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, has acquired a Sikeston, Missouri-based agency, Tri-Star of Sikeston Inc., doing business as Self Insurance. Now led by Brian Self, the agency has served the insurance needs of Missouri …
March 8, 2018
ONI Risk Partners, based in Indianapolis, has hired Noah Adams as an employee benefits consultant. Adams advises employee benefits clients on issues relating to wellness, healthcare reform, controlling costs, and employee benefits offerings including a total rewards package to recruit …