September 22, 2021
The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has acquired with Cormarc Insurance Services in Murrieta, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cormarc is an independent agency that provides a variety of services, including contractor liability, workers’ compensation, group benefits and …
September 22, 2021
A weekend fire destroyed a historic church in Chicago’s far southern suburbs that had appeared in the 2002 film “Road to Perdition.” Officials said nearly a dozen fire departments responded to the Sept. 19 fire in the Will County village …
September 22, 2021
Federal workplace safety officials say an Ohio contractor continues to defy federal safety requirements to ensure workers use fall protection. OSHA reports that Orwell, Ohio-based roofing contractor Neal Weaver and his company have been cited six times in 5 years …
September 22, 2021
Texas-based companies, Otso and Assurely, have partnered to create an insurance coverage option for lease security in the commercial real estate industry. The insurance coverage allows landlords to reduce the risks of leasing while saving tenants of commercial property essential …
September 22, 2021
This edition of International People Moves details promotions and appointments at three insurers: Beazley, Everest Insurance and MGA Pen Underwriting. A summary of these new hires follows here. Beazley Promotes Turk as Group Head of Strategy Beazley, the London-based insurer, …
September 22, 2021
A Wisconsin school district has settled a lawsuit brought by a former student who said the district ignored years of complaints by her and her mother about multiple sexual assaults and a pattern of racial discrimination. The Baraboo School District …
September 22, 2021
A Texas man who was working for a contractor at an Alabama steel mill died after being struck by a forklift, authorities said. Don Burton died at Huntsville Hospital following the accident, which occurred Monday morning, news outlets reported. He …
September 22, 2021
The Oklahoma Insurance Department approved a 9.4% decrease in workers’ compensation insurance loss costs for 2022, a reduction that will lead to lower premiums for many Oklahoma businesses, the department said. Loss costs are the average cost of lost wages …
September 22, 2021
Catastrophe risk modeling firm Karen Clark & Co. estimates that the insured loss from Hurricane Nicholas will come in at around $950 million. KCC said its estimate is based on its high-resolution KCC US Hurricane Reference Model and includes the …
September 22, 2021
About 13,000 homes in Louisiana’s Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes were destroyed by Hurricane Ida and displaced parish residents have been sleeping in tents and “using the rubble to build their own sort of makeshift structure,” Speaker Pro Tempore Tanner Magee …