A federal appeals court says an eastern Pennsylvania city and not its insurance company must pay a multimillion-dollar settlement with the widow of a police officer accidentally shot by another officer inside police headquarters. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of …
Investigators say a five-alarm fire that caused an estimated $4.5 million in damages to a Sudbury, Massachusetts greenhouse operation was caused by a tractor malfunction. The state fire marshal and the Sudbury fire chief said in a joint statement that …
A former municipal police officer who sued a New Jersey state trooper for excessive use of force has been awarded $5 million. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority says it plans to appeal the jury’s decision. Gary Wade, then a Tinton …
Massachusetts has approved a 2.4 percent decrease in workers’ compensation insurance costs, a figure that should reduce premiums by an estimated $22.5 million this year. Originally the Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau, a private, nonprofit organization of Massachusetts workers’ …
A New Jersey court has found that records of settlements reached by insurance companies on behalf of government entities should be open to the public. In 2008, lawyer Mark Cimino asked used the state’s Open Public Records Act to request …
John T. Leonard, president and CEO of Maine-based workers’ comp insurer the MEMIC Group, has been elected chairman of the National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. (NCCI). NCCI is the a key ratemaking organization in the workers’ compensation insurance industry. …
Insurance agent David M. Gelia has been elected chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New York (IIABNY). Gelia, executive vice-president of United Insurance Agency in Amherst, has served as chair-elect, secretary-treasurer and regional director representing the nonprofit …
New Jersey Insurance Commissioner Tom Considine praised new, bipartisan legislation that would grow the reinsurance market and create a captive insurance market in the Garden State. The captive insurance bill was put forward in the Assembly by Democrat Gary Schaer, …
A Connecticut jury has awarded $2.9 million to a bicyclist who was injured when she hit a gate on West Hartford land owned by a regional water and sewer agency. Maribeth Blonski of Rocky Hill sued the Hartford-based Metropolitan District …
Vermont lawmakers appear poised to pass a bill cracking down on misclassification of workers by employers looking to avoid paying workers’ compensation premiums and unemployment insurance tax. Backers of the measure — which has been agreed to in a legislative …
