Chicago-based broker Hub International has acquired Burnham and Company Inc., of New Jersey. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Burnham, based in Englewood Cliffs, has approximately $4 million in annual revenue. It will become part of Hub International Northeast …
Maine’s supreme court says a workers’ compensation beneficiary isn’t eligible for additional benefits for a car crash that happened en route to a mediation meeting. Kurt Feiereisen, a NewPage employee, was injured on the job in 1987, 1997 and again …
New Jersey prosecutors say a woman who is currently serving a five-year sentence for insurance fraud and identity theft has been indicted in a separate insurance fraud scheme to steal over $8,000 from Liberty Mutual. Dalynn White, also known as …
Nearly 40,000 young chickens are dead following an early morning fire at a poultry house in Rockingham County, Virginia. WHSV-TV reports that the fire was reported shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday at the poultry house on Mayland Road in Broadway. …
Citigroup was accused in a new lawsuit filed of using companywide layoffs during the recent financial turmoil to purge its work force of scores of female employees to save the jobs of less-qualified men. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District …
New York insurance regulators proposed a series of tweaks to the state’s coastal homeowners insurance market this week, but it will probably be months before the state panel tasked with evaluating the proposals makes any decisions. The Temporary Panel on …
New Jersey State Police say a farm machine struck overhead power lines and caught fire, killing two workers and injuring a third. Sgt. Julian Castellanos says a chute on a combine the men were operating snagged high-tension wires at about …
A 22-year-old Connecticut man accused of causing a car crash in April that took the life of a 70-year-old man is blaming the accident on his dog. Police say Brian Taplinger turned himself in over the weekend and was released …
Massachusetts-based Eastern Insurance Group has appointed Matthew Shadrick as executive vice president of it employee benefits division, Eastern Benefits Group. The 20-year industry veteran most recently served as national sales director for the Aon Consulting Human Capital Practice where he …
A Philadelphia-area school district has agreed to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits over secret photos taken on school-issued laptops. The Lower Merion School District admits it captured thousands of webcam photographs and screen shots from student laptops in a …
