A $250,000 federal grant aims to protect the Merrimack River, which provides drinking water to over 600,000 people. The grant will protect the river from climate change, pollution and development pressures in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, NHPR reported. According to …
AM Best has upgraded the financial strength rating to A (excellent) from A- (excellent) and the long-term issuer credit ratings to “a” from “a-” of Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company, the lead property/casualty company and its wholly owned subsidiary, New …
USI Insurance Services (USI), a provider of risk management, employee benefit and retirement plan consulting, has completed its acquisition of the insurance business offered through Northwest Insurance Services from Northwest Bank, a subsidiary of Northwest Bancshares Inc. Northwest Insurance Services …
Baltimore County has agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve a religious discrimination lawsuit over a county board’s denial of a church’s expansion plan. The Baltimore Sun reports that the county and Hunt Valley Baptist Church reached the March 31 …
Fire marshals are investigating the cause of a restaurant fire in Rehoboth Beach that caused half a million dollars in damage. The Delaware Office of the State Fire Marshal said the blaze started around 2 a.m. Saturday at Shrimpy’s Pub …
During the RIMS LIVE 2021 Virtual Conference finale, RIMS CEO Mary Roth and RIMS President Ellen Dunkin announced the University of Hartford student team as the winner of the 2021 Spencer-RIMS Risk Management Challenge. Competing against 18 other universities from …
The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has issued guidance for property/casualty insurers in the state to continue to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in rate filings. “Much has changed since the start of the pandemic, and there will be lasting …
New York’s attorney general said on Thursday she has opened a probe into whether baby food contains arsenic and other toxic metals, and asked four manufacturers to provide information on whether their infant rice cereal products are safe. In letters …
Authorities were investigating a helicopter crash in northeastern Pennsylvania, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The wreckage of a Robinson R44 copter was found in a remote area of Wyoming after the agency had issued an alert about a missing aircraft, …
A 27-year-old Connecticut man has been arrested on charges of setting fire to a building that housed a mental health treatment facility where he lived, police said. Firefighters and police officers were dispatched to a building in Clinton on Tuesday …
