New York-based specialty insurer Assurant Inc. has named Brian D. Koppy as vice president of investor relations. Koppy most recently as director of investor relations and communications at Barnes Group Inc., a diversified specialty industrial business in Connecticut. Prior to …
An investigation into what some officials say was the biggest fire in Boston in decades is getting under way. About 170 firefighters from across the city battled the nine-alarm blaze that razed a vacant warehouse in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood. …
A Philadelphia-area woman is suing a furniture store claiming it leased her furniture infested with bedbugs and refused to take it back when she complained. The suit filed Thursday by Robin Boyd claims Aaron’s Sales and Lease in Norristown rented …
An eastern Pennsylvania jury has awarded $6.8 million in damages to a woman who was injured in a 2007 drunken driving crash. A Chester County jury found a Coatesville restaurant liable for having continued to serve a man who had …
Lawsuits by the Connecticut Attorney General accusing three credit ratings agencies with giving artificially low credit ratings to municipalities can proceed in a Connecticut state court, a judge ruled. In a ruling made public Friday, Connecticut Superior Court Judge Robert …
At least 80 Claymont, Delaware residents have joined a damage and personal-injury lawsuit targeting a long-troubled steel recycling plant there, in a case that claims owners failed for years to control “poisonous clouds” of toxic dust. The lawsuit surfaced days …
A Boston bar where a man was killed by a shard of glass from a beer mug has decided to switch at least temporarily to plastic cups and nonglass bottles. The Landsdowne Pub faces a licensing hearing next month. The …
State fire marshal’s investigators are probing five separate arsons that caused heavy damage to buildings and vehicles in northern New Castle County. Authorities said the fires were set 2 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. Wednesday and targeted at two vacant dwellings, …
Managing general underwriter K&K Insurance has hired James Algeo as a sales representative covering the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. Algeo joins Indiana-based K&K — part of Aon Corp. — to aid in expanding the firm’s relationships with agencies in the …
The mother of a man who was shot to death by Baltimore County police has filed a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit against six officers and the county government. Gwendolyn Cann claims officers used excessive force when they fired more than 70 …
