The head of New Jersey’s workers’ compensation division could begin issuing stop-work orders against contractors for misrepresenting employee headcounts under a bill awaiting signature by Gov. Jon Corzine. The bill,
Palisades Safety and Insurance Management Corp. and Narragansett Bay Insurance Co.(NBIC) have entered into an agreement allowing NBIC to offer coastal home insurance renewal quotes to former customers of Proformance Insurance Co., which Palisades acquired last year Palisades is one …
New York-based program manager Insight Catastrophe Group has launched a new division that will provide identity theft programs to personal and commercial lines insurance carriers. The new program includes two supplemental covers: a personal lines product designed to protect a …
An insurer can’t cite the commonly used earth movement exclusion to deny coverage to an insured whose property was damaged by excavation to a neighboring lot, a New York Appeals Court has ruled. The case pitted the owner of condo …
Westbrook, Maine-based Acadia Insurance Co. has named Paul Strohfus as its new senior vice president for Claims and Legal Services. Strohfus will oversee the development of claim operations for Acadia, work to maximize government relations efforts and ensure legal matters …
An anti-toll activist is criticizing a sharp increase in the number of speeding tickets being handed out by state troopers along the Massachusetts Turnpike. The Boston Herald reported Wednesday that the number of speeding tickets given on the 138-mile highway …
Insurance giant Allstate Corp. is closing its claims office in South Portland, a move that affects 55 people. Company spokesman Mike Siemienas said Wednesday the shutdown will take place by July 31 and is part of a consolidation of claims …
An insurer can deny liability coverage to a New Hampshire climbing gym because it failed to get a waiver from a climber who was later seriously hurt, the state’s Supreme Court has ruled. The decision centered on a lawsuit between …
A worker putting air in a retreaded tractor-trailer tire at a New Jersey business was killed when it exploded. State police say Bruce Coverdale of Commercial Township died instantly in Friday’s accident at Advance Treads in Pittsgrove. Another staffer working …
An investigator hired by one of the companies at the center of an explosion that shook Danvers more than 2 1/2 years ago has dismissed the government’s explanation. Scott Davis, an engineer, said at a public meeting Wednesday that the …
