Officials at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore say $1.5 million in damage after two recent snowstorms will delay the attractions’ opening by up to a month. Insurance adjusters declared the Maryland aviary a total loss, the African aviary was heavily …
A Connecticut police officer who shot and killed a 200-pound chimpanzee last year after it mauled a woman has been denied an insurance claim for post-traumatic stress disorder because state law only applies to police shootings of people. State Sen. …
Investment gains helped Pennsylvania-based insurer Harleysville Group Inc. post a 422 percent increase in fourth-quarter income to $24.2 million, as the insurer nearly doubled its profits to $86.3 million in 2009. “We’re pleased that we ended 2009 with another strong …
Linda Todd has been appointed director of Business Development for CNA’s Philadelphia branch. She will help shape and expand CNA’s market presence and sales culture, and will support the business insurer’s branches in Reading and Pittsburgh. She brings to her …
Fire marshals say a malfunctioning boiler caused a weekend fire that ravaged a row of businesses in Queens. The Fire Department said that the weekend blaze, which started in a furniture store, has been declared accidental.The four-alarm fire led to …
A former executive at the parent company of the Dunkin’ Donuts coffee shop chain alleges in a $5 million lawsuit that the Massachusetts-based company damaged his reputation so much that he can’t land another job. Michael O’Donovan, who as vice …
Insurance broker William Gallagher Associates has promoted Karen Cangemi and Michael Talmanson to vice presidents within the firm’s Boston-based Property and Casualty practice. Cangemi has been in the insurance industry for 10 years. Since her start at WGA in 2005, …
A jury has ruled against a Massachusetts woman who claimed in a lawsuit against her real estate broker that she was forced to move out of her condominium because of secondhand cigarette smoke coming from a neighbor. Alyssa Burrage alleged …
Fire trucks and sheep are the latest things to be endangered by roofs sagging or collapsing beneath heavy snows in one western Pennsylvania county. The Amwell Township Volunteer Fire Department on Monday had to move $1 million worth of trucks …
Five more auto insurers in Massachusetts have reached settlements with the state’s attorney general over their failure to update at-fault accident information for drivers whom they insure. The companies involved in the settlements are Metropolitan Property & Casualty, Liberty Mutual, …
