PMA Cos. has named Patricia A. Brookey as assistant vice president for managed care services. Brookey will oversee the managed care vendor management program for the Blue Bell, Pa.-based insurer, which emphasizes managed care as a crucial area of workers’ …
A crime ring raked in about $10,000 a day by manufacturing credit cards with numbers purchased illegally from overseas Web sites, committing mortgage fraud and staging car accidents and auto thefts to collect insurance payouts, prosecutors said Wednesday. Thirteen people …
A boating safety group hopes crashing boats on the James River will help investigators learn how to reconstruct collisions. The crashes last month were recorded, and the damaged boats, video and data gathered will be used in training courses for …
One of Massachusetts largest auto insurers is sponsoring a program that allows the state’s registry to notify drivers when their licenses come up for renewal. Arbella Insurance Group, said it has become the charter sponsor of the Massachusetts Registry of …
The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New Jersey (IIABNJ) has elected new leadership. Terry M. Ryan of Hanson & Ryan in Totowa will serve as the new chairman of the association. Ronald Gansfuss of Gansfuss Agency in Clinton will …
J. M. Woodworth RRG, Inc., a medical malpractice Risk Retention Group that insures physicians and surgeons in New York, is reducing the capital new policyholders are required to pay by 83 percent through the end of this year. The company …
A crane operator has been killed after his machine fell off a barge into Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. Capt. Patrick Meeks of Franklin County’s Department of Public Safety says divers recovered the body of 54-year-old Roger Dale Goad of …
A deputy sheriff has been accused of claiming an on-the-job injury when she actually was hurt by being thrown off her horse. The Putnam County deputy, Barbara Dunn, was indicted Monday on charges including grand larceny, insurance fraud and perjury. …
A Norfolk, Virginia woman will spend seven years in prison for staging auto accidents to collect insurance money. Teresa R. Gallop was sentenced in federal court Monday. The 41-year-old had 60 prior felony convictions, including one for manslaughter. Gallop was …
A New York court has ordered a hospital to pay $2.2 million to a quadriplegic man who developed bedsores “all the way down to the bone.” Attorney Raymond Keegan says caregivers failed to turn Eric Trainor every two hours during …
