A Pennsylvania-based security company will pay $110,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of an employee in Louisiana, federal officials say. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said U.S. Security Associates Inc., a security company doing …
Relation Insurance Services Inc. (Relation), based in Walnut Creek, Calif., has acquired the assets of The McKinney Group, dba McGhee Insurance Northwest Arkansas (McGhee), in Rogers, Arkansas. The acquisition represents Relation’s entry into Arkansas. McGhee serves personal and commercial line …
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s push to scale back a voter-approved measure to legalize medical marijuana was left clinging to life on March 10 after Republican senators defied her. The issue of implementing a medical marijuana program, which voters approved …
A Nebraska lawmaker who is a leading supporter of medical marijuana has warned her fellow senators that the issue will likely appear on the 2022 ballot if they don’t pass a legalization measure this year. Sen. Anna Wishart, of Lincoln, …
Daniel Clampitt, 41, of Denair, Calif., was arraigned on four felony counts including insurance fraud, grand theft and perjury for allegedly claiming to be too injured to work and simultaneously collecting $94,788 in workers’ compensation benefits while also working for …
Adaptive cruise control systems on cars, which control braking and speed, raise the risk of traffic crashes because the technology leads drivers to go faster, a U.S. study found on Thursday. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that drivers …
After a dramatic downturn in the second quarter of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, merger and acquisition (M&A) deal volume soared to record highs in the second half of the year. This was mirrored in growth of transactional risk …
A new partnership between specialty wholesaler CRC Group, 5Star Specialty Programs and life insurer subsidiary Pan-American Benefit Solutions (PABS), will focus on offering workers’ compensation coverage for the trucking industry. The offering is part of PABS’s capacity expansion to writing …
Alera Group has acquired Behling Insurance Agency Inc. in Utah. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Behling provides personal and commercial property/casualty insurance solutions across three locations in Utah and Montana. Behling also specializes in creating insurance solutions for …
State Farm is returning $400 million to California mutual auto insurance customers due to better than anticipated claim results, the company announced this week. The announcement comes as the California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday said insurers in California …
