Pennsylvania-based Keystone Insurers Group has appointed David C. Keller as vice president for carrier relations. Keller, is a 25-year veteran of the insurance industry, spent the last four years with Harleysville Insurance Group as relationship manager for KIG, and eight …
Another federal agency has joined the investigation of an explosion at a Pittsburgh-area coke plant that injured 20 workers last week. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has sent a three-person team to U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works to determine whether …
A weekend enforcement effort by the Virginia State Police on Interstates 81 and 95 resulted in more than 6,000 summonses and arrests. More than half of the tickets were for speeding. State police also reported stopping 628 reckless drivers and …
Companies that sold lead-based paint have appealed a judge’s decision denying them reimbursement for the cost of defending themselves against a lawsuit from Rhode Island. Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein ruled in May the state didn’t have to repay them. …
New Jersey-based insurance broker Bollinger Inc. has acquired David Szerlip Associates of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, a specialist in insurance programs for nonprofits. The firm’s clients ranged from large, international nonprofits to small start-ups. David Szerlip will continue with Bollinger …
New York insurance regulators have approved a 7.7 percent hike in workers’ compensation loss costs — an increase that will go into effect in October. The New York Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (NYCIRB), the state’s rate service organization, recommended the …
Deutsche Bank is set to buy American International Group Inc.’s building at 72 Wall Street for about $60 million from a consortium including South Korea’s Kumho Investment Bank, a person with knowledge of the deal said on Monday. The sale …
The New York State Insurance Fund said a Queens contractor who allegedly defrauded the workers’ comp insurer of more than $150,000 in uncollected premium has been arrested. Queens contractor on grand larceny and workers’ compensation fraud charges for allegedly defrauding …
More New Jersey motorists surveyed say they’re texting behind the wheel and speeding. But the Garden State residents believe New York motorists are the worst drivers. Some 25 percent of New Jersey motorists surveyed in a Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind …
Baltimore fire and rescue officials say a contractor performing work on an underground sewer line who fell into an eight- to 10-foot hole is dead. Fire department spokesman Kevin Cartwright says paramedics who responded to the Saturday incident on East …
