Marsh’s retail agency business has acquired Trion Group Inc., the largest privately held employee benefits specialist in the United States with $74 million in annual revenue. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based Trion offers consulting, brokerage, group …
Boston-based insurer ProMutual Group has hired Linda Bieber as risk management consultant. Bieber, a nurse, will provided physician office appraisals and risk management services to insured hospitals and emergency department facilities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She will also provide …
Montgomery County, Virginia says it expects to get $4.4 million from its insurance carrier for the collapse of the Blacksburg High School gym roof last February. The Roanoke Times reports that the anticipated insurance payment is included in the county’s …
A tobacco company that had tried to hook black children on cigarettes was ordered to pay $81 million in punitive damages to the estate and son of a Boston woman who started smoking at age 13, in what an attorney …
A western Pennsylvania town has banned sledding in a popular park and voted to lay out a sledding course in another. Beaver’s borough council unanimously approved the restrictions because of liability concerns raised by its insurance carrier. Under the new …
Police say a suspect is in custody after a third fire in one week damaged a Super 8 motel in Virginia. Hanover fire Battalion Chief William Jones tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the third fire was reported just after 1 …
The state says a New York City suburb endangered two employees who suffocated in a manhole by not providing proper training or equipment. The village of Tarrytown was issued four violations of safety laws. Two were classified as willful, meaning …
A jury has ruled in favor of a Massachusetts couple and awarded them nearly $2 million in a medical malpractice suit they brought against St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester. Laura Ginisi claimed in the suit that misdiagnosis of several strokes …
New Jersey is moving toward making polluters pay the full cost of cleaning up offshore spills. A bill to remove a cap on liability for oil and other spills into coastal waters was passed by the state Senate on Monday …
Longtime state lobbyist Steve Kimbell will serve as insurance commissioner of Vermont, incoming Gov. Peter Shumlin has announced Kimbell will head the Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration. Shumlin, a democrat, announced the appointment at a press …
