Benjamin Roberts has been appointed as a senior production underwriter by workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group to support continued growth in the Vermont market. Roberts, a native of Vermont, previously worked the territory with Acadia Insurance. The MEMIC Group …
Injured Iowa workers seeking benefits from their employers are waiting longer to get their hearing dates as a state agency transitions to a new filing system. Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Joseph Cortese told lawmakers in a letter on Sept. 24 …
Emergency officials say several airplanes have been destroyed in a hangar fire at a small airport in North Texas. Fire officials say no one was hurt in a blaze at Caddo Mills Municipal Airport, about 35 miles (56.32 kilometers) northeast …
Not long ago, private flood insurance was thought to be an impossible dream in the property/casualty sector. There were numerous arguments supporting the common wisdom that a meaningful market for residential flood coverage from admitted private insurers would never exist. …
Frank Castro, a producer at Giddings, Texas-based independent insurance agency, The Nitsche Group, has been elected to the Austin Contractors & Engineers Association’s (ACEA) board of directors as secretary/treasurer for the 2019-2020 fiscal year. The ACEA is a group of …
It’s been over two and one-half months since July 9 floodwaters inundated south Kearney’s hotel district and forced the closure of all but 600 of Kearney’s hotel rooms. Kearney Visitors Bureau Executive Director Roger Jasnoch has said there now are …
Around noon one Wednesday in July, two school districts from California’s Central Valley auctioned off their bonds to Wall Street underwriters. Both had the same credit rating. The deals were of similar size. They were being issued for the same …
U.S. health officials on Thursday reported 805 confirmed and probable cases and 12 deaths so far from a mysterious respiratory illness tied to vaping, with the outbreak showing no signs of losing steam. Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease …
Scores of local government officials from 31 U.S. states pressured McDonald’s Corp.’s on Thursday to do a better job of protecting workers from groping, obscene comments and other forms of sexual harassment, adding their voices to an employee-led campaign that …
North Dakota lawmakers have begun studying the consequences of legalizing marijuana in the state, a move that comes amid a pair of proposed citizen-led initiatives that aim to make the drug legal for recreational use. Despite presentations from law enforcement, …
