Cal/OSHA is cautioning California employers to be prepared to protect workers from unhealthy air due to wildfire smoke. When workers are at risk form unhealthy air from wildfires, California’s protection from wildfire smoke standard requires employers to take steps such …
The United States Department of Agriculture is authorizing emergency procedures to help agricultural producers impacted by extreme drought conditions. USDA’s Risk Management Agency is working with crop insurance companies to streamline and accelerate the adjustment of losses and issuance of …
A Texas man must serve 10 years probation and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution after fraudulently filing claims for medical tests he was not authorized to perform on workers allegedly including his mother, state insurance regulators say. …
Holmes Murphy Waukee, Iowa-based Holmes Murphy named Ellen Willadsen chief innovation officer (CIO); Lindsay Chase assumed the role of the firm’s chief financial officer (CFO); and Susan Hatten has been promoted to the role of Holmes Murphy’s chief marketing officer …
One General Agency (OGA) One General Agency (OGA) in Oklahoma City added four new team members. Jennifer Konemann is the firm’s new workers’ compensation underwriter. She has more than 25 years of experience as a commercial lines account manager. Her …
These international People Moves detail appointments at AXA XL, Tegron Specialty (the new D&O underwriter), Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance, and London-based MGA platform Spring Partners. A summary of these new hires follows here: AXA XL has appointed David Watson as …
The Dallas-area owners and operators of two durable medical equipment companies have been convicted on insurance fraud and money laundering charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas reported. Federal officials said Leah Hagen, 49, and Michael …
Film and television actor Sacha Baron Cohen, best known for his movie character Borat, is suing a Massachusetts cannabis firm for $9 million because Cohen says the firm used his likeness on a billboard without his permission. Cohen and his …
Wildfires that torched homes and forced thousands to evacuate burned across 10 parched Western states, and the largest, in Oregon, threatened a portion of California’s power supply. Nearly 60 wildfires tore through bone-dry timber and brush from Alaska to Wyoming, …
A Cornell University-led research team has calculated that by the year 2050, vehicle electrification, driverless cars and ride sharing could prevent 5,500 premature deaths and save $58 billion annually, while simultaneously slashing U.S. petroleum consumption by 50% and carbon dioxide …
