After a relatively slow start to the 2018 season, three hurricanes are now churning in the Atlantic on potential tracks toward the U.S. east coast and the Caribbean. Ahead of Hurricane Florence’s projected landfall in North Carolina or South Carolina …
Tuesday, Sep 11, 2018, 5:47 am— Florence continued to roll toward the U.S. East Coast, poised to become the strongest hurricane in almost 30 years to hit the Carolinas as more than 1 million people began fleeing a coastline that …
Liberty Mutual’s Global Risk Solutions strategic business unit has centralized its mergers & acquisitions (M&A) insurance offerings with the formation of Global Transaction Solutions group (GTS). The creation of GTS is intended to simplify access for brokers and buyers to …
Frank Opelka has been appointed deputy commissioner of the Office of Health, Life and Annuity at the Louisiana Department of Insurance. Opelka comes to the Department of Insurance from the Louisiana Department of Health where he served as chief of …
Several state agencies in Oklahoma, including the insurance department, are working together on an initiative to curtail distracted driving among teenagers. Oklahoma law bans texting and driving but despite that, there’s evidence that young drivers in the state are the …
AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired Roemer Insurance in conjunction with Sunforest Transportation Insurance Group (STIG), both located in Toledo, Ohio. The company was founded in 1934 by Wellington F. Roemer and has always maintained a focus on servicing the trucking industry …
A series of human errors led to a BNSF Railway train striking and killing two railroad workers in South Dakota last year, federal investigators said. The National Transportation Safety Board released its report on Sept. 6 on the Jan. 17, …
Two young men have pleaded no contest to misdemeanor hazing in the drinking death of a Louisiana State University fraternity pledge whose blood alcohol level was more than six times the legal limit for driving. Sean-Paul Gott, 22, of Lafayette, …
Kevin Garnett is suing an accountant and his firm, alleging they helped a wealth manager steal $77 million from the retired Minnesota Timberwolves and Boston Celtics star. The federal malpractice lawsuit alleges Kentucky-based accountant Michael Wertheim and Welenken CPAs enabled …
A California jury has found the Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline company guilty on criminal charges of fouling state waters and harming wildlife in a major oil spill three years ago along the Pacific shoreline near Santa Barbara. The verdict …
