UPMC WorkPartners, part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, has announced a new workers’ compensation product line offering dollar one coverage for Pennsylvania companies. “Health care reform is raising awareness in the employer community to not only control costs, …
New Jersey is taking aim at residents who fraudulently register their vehicles or obtain auto insurance in other states. The Assembly recently passed a measure that makes so-called “reverse rate evasion” a form of insurance fraud under state law. Under …
A jury awarded $2.45 million Friday in a malpractice case to the estate of a Connecticut woman who had also that claimed botched cancer treatments damaged her same-sex relationship, attorneys said. Margaret Mueller and Charlotte Stacey sued two doctors in …
Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown has acquired Meridian Group of New York, Inc. Meridian Group, with annual revenues of approximately $1.3 million, provides life, health, and other employee benefits products and services to individuals, businesses, public entities, non-profit organizations, …
A.I.M Mutual Insurance Companies, a workers compensation insurer based in Burlington, Massachusetts, has promoted Paul M. Kehoe to controller. Kehoe will be responsible for all financial accounting and reporting functions. Kehoe joined A.I.M. Mutual in January, 2005, as accounting manager. …
Michael Scalzo has been named Mid-Atlantic branch manager at New York-based insurer Magna Carta Cos. Scalzo succeeds Dennis Christensen who is retiring after 25 years with the Company. Magna Carta Companies operates through Public Service Mutual Insurance Co., Paramount Insurance …
Paulette Lundy has been promoted to vice president of Human Resources for Maryland’s Injured Worker Insurance Fund (IWIF), a workers’ compensation insurer. She previously served as director of human resources at IWIF. Prior to joining the organization in 2007, she …
A $25 million wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in connection with a 2008 shooting rampage in Virginia that left one man dead and two other people injured. The lawsuit was filed earlier this month in Wythe County Circuit Court …
The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) has elected David Brinkman chair of its New York Division board of directors. Brinkman, a 26-year industry veteran, is executive managing director of Aon Benfield where he co-leads its national origination team and oversees …
A New Jersey grand jury has indicted a Burlington County insurance agent for pocketing payments from three clients, according to Attorney General Paula T. Dow. Lee Schaffer, of Marlton, was charged with insurance fraud, theft by failure to make required …
