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 …
The highest court in Massachusetts has upheld a $2 million jury award to a former pharmacist at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. who claimed she was fired by the retail chain after asking to be paid the same as her male colleagues. …
A West Bath, Maine woman who crashed her vehicle into a telephone pole has been cited under the state’s new distracted driver law. The Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department says Kandi Frame was talking on a cell phone when she crashed …
Corruption in New York City’s construction industry ran so deep that mobsters worked as city building inspectors in recent years, prosecutors said Thursday. One reputed Lucchese crime family member used his city Department of Buildings job to recruit customers for …
A federal judge has denied a request by Dartmouth College to rule in its favor on a lawsuit over the death of a student in a 2004 skiing accident. Christina Porter was in an introductory skiing class to fulfill her …
