An insurer has agreed to pay $20 million in what is believed to be the state’s richest settlement of a bad faith claim. According to the plaintiff’s attorney, Robert Mongeluzzi of Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesk, Princeton Insurance Co. has …
State senator vows effort to address issue The Oklahoma Supreme Court invalidated a portion of a state law that prohibits medical evidence to be presented in a workers’ compensation case from a doctor hired by an injured worker. The co-chairman …
An insurance agency must pay $5.8 million to a small business that discovered it lacked workers’ compensation coverage after a burned employee sued. An agent for Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Insurance Services improperly failed to tell the company that it …
Two passengers who witnessed their intoxicated friend crash his car into the back of a motorcycle and then be hit by another car had an obligation to help the injured man, a New Jersey appellate court has ruled. The driver …
Nearly 52 percent of U.S. urban Interstates are now congested and traffic fatality rates rose slightly, but road surface conditions and bridge conditions improved, according to the Reason Foundation’s latest annual highway performance report. “Gridlock isn’t going away,” said David …
California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced his determination to expand the state’s Low Cost Auto Insurance Program to Solano, Marin, Santa Cruz, Madera, Napa, Yolo, Mendocino, Kings and Lake counties. The program is expected to go into effect in early …
A psychiatrist cannot be sued for a car crash caused by a patient, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled. The Superior Court ruling upholds a decision written by a Blair County judge dismissing the lawsuit filed by Matthew Stever of Altoona, …
West Virginia’s workers’ compensation insurer BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. has made its first scheduled payment of $5.8 million on its outstanding surplus note to the state of West Virginia, “These payments will go directly to the benefit of the workers …
The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has imposed a $5 million fine on nine insurers in the American International Group (AIG) for numerous violations of Oregon insurance aTITLE: nd workers’ compensation laws, some of them dating back …
Virginia State Police are using digital cameras that can scan highways and parking lots for hot cars and stolen license plates. Using the digital images, police can compare the plates against any database of license plates: those associated with fugitives, …
