The board of Florida Peninsula Insurance Co., a top 10 homeowners insurance company in Florida, has promoted Virginia Austin to director of Special Investigations. Austin, who began her career with Florida Peninsula as a claims examiner, has managed the company’s …
Indiana had 21 work-related deaths on farms deaths last year, the fewest number of documented cases since 2013, Purdue University announced on Sept. 22. Three of the victims were children under the age of 5, while 11 were 60 or …
Two men injured by police during violence that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis are suing the city, its police chief and unnamed officers. Soren Stevenson, 25, lost his left eye after he was shot by police with …
A formerly licensed insurance agent in Flint, Michigan, faces multiple felony charges for allegedly selling fraudulent automobile insurance certificates. The Michigan Department of Financial Services (DIFS) said 24-year old Dillen Leonard has been charged with four counts of selling counterfeit …
Property/casualty insurer Topa Insurance Co. and Hippo Enterprises, a technology-driven managing general agency offering homeowners insurance, announced their mutual decision to end their three-year partnership. The move comes after Hippo’s acquisition of Spinnaker Insurance Co., a national insurer licensed in …
Denver, Colo.-based CAC Specialty has named Matt Movafaghi a senior vice president in its tax insurance practice. Movafaghi was most recently a senior tax counsel for Chevron Corp., where he was responsible for implementing tax planning strategies and advising management …
A lack of firefighting resources in the hours after it was sparked allowed a fast-moving wildfire to make an unprecedented run through Southern California mountains and eventually find fuel in old-growth trees to become one of Los Angeles County’s largest …
Carnival Corp. is poised to dramatically curb monetary damages for passengers killed by the coronavirus under the latest court decision to side with the company. If a ruling Monday by a Los Angeles federal judge is followed by others, it …
Juul Labs Inc. has the Mafia to thank for the most potent legal claims accusing the e-cigarette maker of igniting an epidemic of youth nicotine addiction. The company will try to persuade a federal judge Monday that consumers and school …
Back in March and April, I gave two webinars on COVID-19 for the Academy of Insurance. If you haven’t had a chance to take those, click here to get the Academy of Insurance COVID-19 related classes. One of the topics …
