Calabasas, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Group has named Tracy Tillinghast vice president and chief information officer. Tillinghast will be responsible for driving the company’s technology strategy and leading the IT department. Tillinghast has more than 25 years of insurance technology experience. …
A southwest Mississippi city has paid $1.45 million to clean up from an April 23 tornado and now awaits reimbursement from federal and state disaster agency. The Enterprise-Journal reports McComb made its final payment to a debris removal contractor and …
Georgia’s governor is extending the two main executive orders that govern Georgia’s response to COVID-19. Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday signed a 15-day extension of the order that mandates requirements on social distancing, bans on gatherings of more than 50 …
Scores of Floridians struggling with rents and mortgages were given another reprieve when Gov. Ron DeSantis again extended a moratorium against residential evictions and foreclosures. The governor did so Monday night, just hours before a previous extension was to expire …
The rural economy in Middle America showed improvement in August, despite the effects of a global pandemic and a rare devastating windstorm earlier in the month, according to a monthly survey of nine Midwest and Plains states released on Sept. …
Prosecutors in Hennepin County, Minnesota, have filed charges against ten additional people accused of looting and causing damage in downtown Minneapolis last week. The announcement by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office brings the total number of people charged to 26 …
Family members of two of the deceased Odessa, Texas, mass shooting victims are suing the person who supplied the AR-style firearm to the mass shooter and the gun parts manufacturer for over $1 million in damages. The families of 15-year-old …
Damage to city-owned property from violence that erupted over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha is estimated at nearly $2 million so far, a city official said. The city’s public works director, Shelly Billingsley, provided the estimate to …
Houston International Insurance Group Ltd. (HIIG) has launched an E&S (excess and surplus) brokerage business unit to provide liability and property insurance products and services to the wholesale brokerage market. The unit will be led by Mark Boland, supported by …
Columbus, Ohio-based Root Inc., the parent company of Root Insurance, has added Julie Mix McPeak, who formerly served as insurance commissioner in both Kentucky and Tennesse, as its senior deputy general counsel, effective on Sept. 1. McPeak was first appointed …
