Monthly Archives: <span>July 2020</span>

Pennsylvania Extends Grace Period for Expiring Driver Licenses

Pennsylvania reported more than 800 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Wednesday, as continuing concern about the virus prompted a new grace period for drivers with expiring licenses. The state Department of Transportation extended the expiration dates for driver licenses, identification …

Insurance Broker PCF Acquires Avidity Insurance in Kansas

PCF Insurance Services (PCF), headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif., has acquired Avidity Insurance, an Overland Park, Kansas-based independent insurance agency founded in 2013 by Will Wilson. Avidity offers home, auto, business, life and specialty insurance products and services. Founded in …

Liberty Mutual’s Aldous Joins EverQuote as VP of Insurance Data, Product Services

EverQuote, Inc., an online insurance marketplace, has added Michael Aldous as vice president of Insurance Data and Product Services. Aldous joins EverQuote from Liberty Mutual Insurance, where he led teams responsible for the development and launch of digital accident & …

Megadroughts Brought by Climate Change a Challenge for Texas Ranchers

Arthur Uhl III has been ranching for 30 years and routinely has the same lament: “It doesn’t rain enough.” Uhl, who works on his family’s San Angelo-area ranches, needs the rain to grow the grass that feeds his livestock. But …

Schools, not Local Health Officials, Decide on Class Start, Texas AG Says

Local health officials in Texas do not have the authority to close schools to prevent spread of the coronavirus, state Attorney General Ken Paxton said July 28, pushing that decision solely into the hands of school officials. Paxton issued a …

UPS Freight to Pay $75K to Resolve Kansas Disability Discrimination Lawsuit

UPS Freight will pay $75,000 to resolve a three-year old federal lawsuit over disability discrimination at its service center in Kansas City, Kansas, federal authorities said. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit in August 2017 (Equal Employment …

Former Michigan Insurance Agent Pleads No Contest to Embezzlement Charges

A plea deal has been reached with a former Genesee County, Michigan, insurance agent who allegedly embezzled from her clients and provided them with phony insurance certificates for home and auto insurance, the state’s department of insurance reported. The Michigan …

Chubb CEO Says U.S. Failure to Manage Covid-19 Hurts Economy, Global Image

Global insurer Chubb’s employees have begun to return to their offices in many countries around the world as governments have brought the coronavirus pandemic under control. However, the United State government has not been able to get the virus under …

As Benefits Expire, Senate Adjourns Without Congressional Deal on Coronavirus Aid

Just one day before a federal jobless benefit was set to expire, the U.S. Congress was no closer on Thursday to a deal extending or replacing the extra $600 per week in payments to tens of millions of Americans thrown …

First Fidelity Brokerage of N.Y., Moulton Insurance of Mass., Acquired by PCF

PCF Insurance Services (PCF), headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif., has acquired two brokerages based in the Eastern U.S. The brokerages that have joined PCF include: First Fidelity Brokerage, a New York City-based full-service property & casualty insurance broker with a …