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Twenty-Two Escape Fire in N.C.
Aug 19 2010 // Authorities say 22 people living in a house for migrant workers in western North Carolina escaped a fire that appears to have started on a back porch. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported the fire began early Tuesday in...
Six Months Later, No Cause Found in New Hampshire Fire
Aug 17 2010 // Six months after a massive fire destroyed a block of businesses at New Hampshire’s Hampton Beach, investigators still can’t say what caused it. Hampton Fire Chief Chris Silver tells the Portsmouth Herald five...
Three in N.C. Busted for Auto Theft Fraud
Aug 17 2010 // North Carolina’s Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has announced the arrests of three individuals allegedly involved in a fraudulent stolen vehicle scheme meant to deceive an insurance company. Donna Leblanc, 55,...
Ten Key Indicators Show ‘Global Warming is Undeniable’
Jul 29 2010 // Melting glaciers, more humid air and eight other key indicators, show that global warming is undeniable, scientists said Wednesday, citing a new comprehensive review of the last decade of climate data. Without addressing...
Two Accused of Faking $1 Million in Aflac Claims in Georgia
Jul 27 2010 // Two people have been indicted on charges they stole nearly $1 million from insurer Aflac Inc. by filing false insurance claims from 2007 to 2009. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports that federal prosecutors are accusing...
Two Die in Pittsburgh-area Well Explosion
Jul 26 2010 // An oil storage tank at a natural gas well exploded Friday morning, killing two workers, leaving a third man remarkably uninjured and sparking a smoky well fire that smoldered for hours. A team of oil- and gas-well...
One Risk Group Opens Pleasanton Office
Jul 7 2010 // One Risk Group LLC has opened a new location in the Hacienda Business Park in Pleasanton, Calif., to accommodate 30 employees. A retail property/casualty brokerage with a range of insurance and risk management products and...
One Beacon Enters Exclusive Arrangement with USI Affinity
Jun 8 2010 // OneBeacon Professional Insurance has entered into an exclusive arrangement with USI Affinity to administer its Lawyers’ Professional Liability (LPL) insurance program, which provides liability protection solutions...
Two Falls in Two Days for New York City Construction Workers
Jun 1 2010 // One worker is dead and another injured after two separate incidents at New York City construction sites last week. In Brooklyn, a construction worker at a building going up died after he lost his balance and fell about 50...
Two Calif. Workers’ Comp Defense Firms Merge
May 17 2010 // Heggeness, Sweet, Simington & Patrico, a San Diego-based workers’ compensation defense firm and Mentz, Finn & McDowell, a San Francisco-based workers’ comp defense firm, have announced an agreement to...
Seven North Jersey Residents Charged In Auto “Give Up” Scheme
May 6 2010 // Seven New Jersey residents have been charged with insurance fraud and related charges for lying to police that their cars had been stolen in order to collect insurance money, the New Jersey Attorney General’s office...
Four More Massachusetts Insurers Settle over Driving Records
May 6 2010 // Nearly 10,000 Massachusetts drivers’ records will be corrected after four insurers reached settlements with the state over their failure to do so. Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office reached settlements...
Five UT Pan American Students Awarded Insurance Scholarships
Apr 22 2010 // Five outstanding business degree majors at the University of Texas Pan American in Edinburg, Texas, have been awarded academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT). The students, many of them first...
One Down, More to Go for AIG and Cordray
Apr 19 2010 // Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray won a round in early April in his lawsuit alleging insurance companies and brokers conspired to fix commercial casualty insurance prices during a period extending from 2001 to...
Two Hurt in Fire at Pennsylvania Pipe Manufacturing Plant
Apr 15 2010 // Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say two people were injured, one seriously, in a fire at a pipe manufacturing plant. The fire erupted after a furnace burst around 8:30 a.m. Monday at Victaulic Co. in Lower Macungie...
Four Injured in Partial Collapse at Brooklyn Construction Site
Mar 31 2010 // Authorities are investigating a partial collapse at a construction site in Brooklyn where four workers were injured, one seriously. The Fire Department of New York and the Buildings Department were investigating the...
Two Lawyers Named to Minnesota Auto Insurance Plan Governing Committee
Mar 9 2010 // Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Glenn Wilson has appointed two public members to the governing committee of the Minnesota Automobile Insurance Plan (MAIP). Thomas J. Evenson is an associate with Lind, Jensen, Sullivan...
Seven Steps to Selling Your Business
Mar 8 2010 // Owners of small businesses — like many insurance agencies — spend more time working on today’s issues than tomorrow’s potential. This may keep the doors open for now, but what about when they’re ready...
Four Steps to Using Agency Technology for Target Marketing
Feb 7 2010 // Conducting a target marketing campaign used to be cumbersome and expensive. Today, with an up-to-date agency management system, getting started is a snap. It still takes persistence to succeed, but getting going...
Four Steps to Using Agency Technology for Target Marketing
Feb 7 2010 // Conducting a target marketing campaign used to be cumbersome and expensive. Today, with an up-to-date agency management system, getting started is a snap. It still takes persistence to succeed, but getting going...
