ExxonMobil Corp. said on Monday it would take about eight weeks to restore production at the Papua New Guinea liquefied natural gas project (LNG), following a powerful earthquake that hit the country’s energy-rich interior a week ago. The 7.5 magnitude …
The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal judge overseeing hundreds of lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors to give it 30 days to decide whether to participate in the litigation. The department made the request in papers filed in …
A former Tennessee school bus driver was found guilty Thursday of six counts of criminally negligent homicide in a wreck that killed six children. A Hamilton County Criminal Court jury convicted Johnthony Walker of lesser charges in the Nov. 21, …
Everest Underwriting Partners, a unit of Everest Insurance, has expanded its existing Forest & Logging program with underwriting manager Victor O. Schinnerer & Company to include inland marine coverage. According Steve Falecki, vice president of Schinnerer’s Forest & Logging underwriting …
A judge awarded nearly $15 million in a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a one-time mortuary worker who was threatened with being cremated alive for revealing fraud, his attorneys said Thursday. The judgment in favor of Barry Taul, made under a …
Boston Insurance Brokerage LLC (BIB), a national wholesale specialty insurance agency headquartered in Boston, has added Jennifer Szalkay as vice president of Property & Casualty Division. In this role, Szalkay assumes responsibility for developing BIB’s growing business in Florida and …
The Main Street America Group, a super-regional property/casualty insurance company, has promoted Darryl Osman to vice president of personal lines. Osman remains based at the company’s home office in Jacksonville, Fla., and reports to Dan Gaynor, the company’s chief underwriting …
A new research letter published in a medical journal details hundreds of cases of black lung disease in the Central Appalachian coalfields. Three clinics in southwestern Virginia identified 416 coal miners with the disease from January 2013 to February 2017, …
Insurance complaints decreased again in 2017 and remained the last of the top 10 consumer complaint categories, according to the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance’s (TDCI) Division of Consumer Affairs. The number of consumer complaints in 2017 related to …
A joint investigation between the Mississippi State Fire Marshal’s Office, Mississippi Delta Community College (MDCC) Police Department, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Sunflower County Sheriff’s Department, and the Sunflower County Emergency Management has resulted in the arrest of an individual for …
