The airline industry has called on the World Health Organization to rule it’s safe for people to fly without quarantining once they’ve had a coronavirus vaccine. Acknowledgement of that principle from the United Nations agency is vital to the development …
California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has created a free resource center for employers, whether they are policyholders or not, to prepare their businesses for the next phases of COVID-19 reopening and help to avoid penalties from Cal/OSHA. State Fund’s resource …
A Yakima, Wash., fruit grower and processor has been fined more than $150,000 by the Washington Department of Labor & Industries for violating COVID-19 workplace requirements designed to help keep workers safe on the job. This week, L&I notified Evans …
A coastal South Carolina county says hackers broke into its computer network over the weekend. A statement from Georgetown County’s local government Monday said the county’s computer network “suffered a major infrastructure breach over the weekend.” Most of the county’s …
Florida businesses would be protected from coronavirus lawsuits if they made a good effort to follow state-issued guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 under a proposal approved Monday at its first Senate committee stop. While Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis …
Sarasota, Fla.-based Purmort & Martin Insurance Agency, a locally owned insurance agency, has acquired Jeff DeJongh and Associates to further expand its presence in the region. Located in Sarasota, Fla., Jeff DeJongh and Associates is a property and casualty insurance …
Title insurer First American Financial Corp. reported recently that its property/casualty insurance subsidiaries have entered into book transfer agreements with Safeco Insurance and Heritage Insurance Holdings. The agreements are the result of the initiation of a process by the company, …
The coronavirus pandemic and the derecho windstorm helped to boost the number of consumer complaints filed with the state attorney general’s office last year. Scammers took advantage of a confusing and chaotic 2020, as complaints to the Iowa Attorney General’s …
Joe Biden’s first year in office could go down in history as a record-breaker on the job-creation front, with an explosion in hiring expected as the coronavirus vaccine rollout allows Americans to emerge from a year in hiding. It may …
Automobile insurance provider, Bluefire Insurance, has expanded its presence into Illinois. With the addition of Illinois, Bluefire, an Irving, Texas-based managing general agency, now offers coverage in eight states, with more states to be added in the coming months, the …
