A private university will pay $7.5 million to provide care to a football player who suffered a severe brain injury in a 2005 game, settling a case that questioned how the school handled a concussion the player allegedly suffered a …
Pennsylvania insurance agencies, The Securus Group and The Dunlop Agency, have merged in a move they say is aimed at bolstering their market share in the Lehigh Valley and South Central regions of the state. The merged agency, now known …
Six former employees of the University of Southern Maine who lost their jobs in a consolidation move are claiming they were discriminated against because of their ages. The former employees, between the ages of 55 and 65, had worked in …
About two dozen vehicles were battered after hitting a large metal object that somehow ended up on a suburban New York highway. State police say no one was injured during the incident Sunday night on Interstate 287 in Harrison. Several …
Police in Rhode Island can force motorists who are suspected of driving drunk and are involved in serious car crashes to submit to blood-alcohol testing under a new law. Police and state prosecutors are praising the law, which was signed …
One worker is dead and another is seriously injured after being shocked by an electric line while making repairs at the site of a water main break in Arlington, Virginia. The county identified the worker as 59-year-old James Bea, a …
Virginia Tech’s Seismological Observatory says a small earthquake that struck central Virginia prompted numerous reports of weak to light shaking but it didn’t cause any damage. The observatory and the U.S. Geological Survey say the 2.7-magnitude quake occurred at 5:24 …
Children under 18 who lost a parent in a deadly 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire should receive an average gross award of $202,000 as their shares of a $176 million legal settlement, according to a report submitted in federal court. …
Boston-based insurance brokerage William Gallagher Associates (WGA) has named Jamie T. Balboni as the new head of its Property & Casualty Practice Balboni is a principal at the firm with over 25 years of experience in the insurance brokerage industry. …
New Jersey-based Patterson-McKenna Insurance Agency Inc. (PMA) has joined Bollinger Insurance brokerage. The agency provides a wide array of commercial, personal and employee benefits insurance services to its more than 900 business clients and 2500 families and individuals. It also …
