Erie Insurance, based in Erie, Penn., has promoted Sheryl Rucker to senior vice president of Erie Insurance’s Law Division. In this role, Rucker will have oversight of compliance, special investigations, agency operations and marketing, claims legal, insurance operations and legal …
USA Risk Group, a Barre, Vt.-headquartered independent captive management firm, has named Peter Rasmussen vice president of business development. Rasmussen will be responsible for driving all sales activity, and in this role, he will work closely with the organization’s subject …
Fire officials say a blaze that injured two firefighters did more than $1 million in damage to a New Jersey home. The Press of Atlantic City reports that the fire at the three-story Ventnor Heights home was reported shortly after …
Nearly $3 million in additional relief funding is going to communities in five upstate New York counties along Lake Ontario to help them recover from last year’s flooding. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that the state had awarded $2.9 million …
Delaware State Police are investigating a carjacking set up by an intentional motor vehicle crash. Authorities say the incident happened Wednesday night on state route 71 in Bear when a woman’s car was rammed from behind by another vehicle. After …
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker is taking steps ensure that commuter rail engineers with poor personal driving records aren’t putting passengers’ safety at risk. The Boston Globe reports the Republican governor notified the Federal Railroad Administration this week that commuter rail …
The owner of a Connecticut pizza parlor has pleaded guilty to a fraud charge for setting fire to his own business and then collecting insurance money. Federal prosecutors say 32-year-old Mustafa Zabana, an Iraqi national living in Westfield, Massachusetts, pleaded …
Three men found guilty in a murder-for-hire scheme in Delaware have been sentenced. News outlets report 46-year-old Ryan Shover, 53-year-old Michael Kman and 55-year-old Paul Disabatino are the last of four men sentenced in the plot in which 43-year-old Wayne …
The case of Mark R. Krzykalski v. David T. Tindall involves an auto accident where both the plaintiff and the defendant were in the left lane turning left through an intersection. An unidentified driver turned unexpectedly from the right lane, …
Five New York residents have been arrested in a staged slip-and-fall accident scheme that attempted to defraud New York City-area businesses and their insurance companies of more than $31.7 million. Peter Kalkanis, Bryan Duncan, Kerry Gordon and Ryan Rainford, all …
