Wholesale intermediary Swett & Crawford appointed David Pohle as Media, Penn.-based transportation underwriter for its transportation practice group. Pohle joins Swett & Crawford after eight years at Jimcor Agencies where he was the lead underwriter and director of the transportation …
Female sales representatives for Quest Diagnostics are accusing the diagnostic testing company of gender discrimination in a $100 million federal lawsuit. The federal lawsuit was filed Thursday in Newark, N.J., by two employees of the Madison, N.J.-based company. They are …
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting a key provision in the federal health care law. The high court is expected to hear arguments this year on the constitutionality of a requirement …
A panel of CEOs at a recent industry forum looked back and shared their thoughts on 2011, the year of record-high catastrophe loss for many carriers. Ohio Mutual Insurance Group CEO James Kennedy said that small- and mid-size mutual insurance …
A man who claims to have been sexually abused as a child by former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky is asking to intervene in an insurance lawsuit, according to a local news report. The Centre Daily Times in Pennsylvania reports …
Willis North America, a unit of insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, appointed Richard Sheldon as environmental practice leader. Sheldon has been serving as national placement leader for the environmental practice since January 2011. He will report to Rick Hawkinberry, chairman …
Celent, a financial and insurance IT advisory services and research firm and a unit of Oliver Wyman, appointed insurance division leader Craig Weber as the new chief executive officer. Weber replaces Mike Harding, who will stay as chairman at Celent. …
The number of people who died on Vermont highways last year dropped 22 percent last year, to 55, the lowest number since 1944, officials said this week. The statistics released by Public Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn and other officials follow …
Virginia is getting more than $19 million in federal funding to repair roads and bridges damaged by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the funding from the Federal Highway Administration’s Emergency Relief Program this …
A Manhattan judge has dismissed a construction company founded by Osama bin Laden’s father as a defendant in Sept. 11 lawsuits brought by families of terrorism victims and others. Judge George Daniels dismissed the Saudi Binladen Group as a defendant …
