August 26, 2009
Pearl River, New York-based The Mechanic Group has launched a new Security Guard, PI and Alarm/Electronic Security umbrella program. The program is offered through insurer Crum & Forster, and replaces a program previously offered with Navigators. The new program includes …
August 26, 2009
The family of Vermont State Police Sgt. Michael Johnson can sue the state’s insurance company for as much as $11 million in connection with Johnson’s death during a 2003 car chase. That’s the upshot of a ruling from the Vermont …
August 26, 2009
Karen Stakem Hornig has been promoted to deputy insurance commissioner of the Maryland Insurance Administration. She was appointed associate Deputy Insurance Commissioner in June 2008. She serves as the Commissioner’s designee for quasi-judicial hearings, heads the agency’s administrative UUnit and …
August 25, 2009
Dinallo, former New York superintendent of insurance, said Monday that he is gearing up for a possible election effort to be the state’s next attorney general. “I recently filed papers with the New York State Board of Elections to form …
August 25, 2009
Mark McCrary has been promoted to regional vice president of Glatfelter Public Practice (GPP), East Region, which is part of insurance brokerage Glatfelter Insurance Group. McCrary is a seasoned insurance executive with MGA experience for public entities, including marketing and …
August 25, 2009
The New York State Insurance Department has posted a notice of proposed regulations for flexible-rating on personal auto insurance. Flex-rating, which allows insurers to set pricing within a certain premium range, was last used in New York for personal auto …
August 24, 2009
Virginia has recorded its first mining death of 2009. A veteran miner was killed early Thursday after coal and rock fell on him while he was working at mine in Wise County near Appalachia. Fifty-eight-year-old William Wayne Parrott of Big …
August 24, 2009
A homeowner’s policy will not pay damages to the mother of a teenager who died after overdosing on painkillers he stole from the man with whom he and his mother lived, a panel of justices from the Massachusetts Appeals Court …
August 24, 2009
An inmate’s surviving family is suing a western Pennsylvania jail saying the man died because his complaints about heroin withdrawal were ignored. The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Pittsburgh targets the Westmoreland County Prison in Greensburg where 23-year-old Corey Kardos …
August 24, 2009
The families of three Camden boys who died in the trunk of a parked car four years ago have reached a settlement with its manufacturer. But separate civil lawsuits filed against Camden, its police department, officers who conducted the search …