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Missouri’s M&T Insurance Agency Merges With Powers Insurance & Risk Management

M&T Insurance Agency recently merged with Powers Insurance & Risk Management, one of the largest family owned and operated independent insurance agencies in the bi-state region. M&T Insurance agency owner Mark Tomlin will continue to serve his clients in a …

Carolina Agent, Missouri Attorneys Indicted on Tax, Insurance Fraud Charges

Two Missouri tax attorneys and a North Carolina insurance agent have been indicted for helping clients set up fraudulent tax shelters, file false tax returns and to defraud an insurance carrier, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. Michael Elliott Kohn and Catherine …

Truck Driver Charged After Indiana Crash Injures Hockey Players

WARSAW, Ind. (AP) – A New York truck driver faces more than two dozen felony charges following a weekend collision in northern Indiana between his semitrailer and a Chicago youth hockey team’s bus that injured 16 of the student athletes, …

Illinois’ GCG Financial Rebrands as Alera Group

GCG Financial, a full-service financial services firm, announced that it is changing its corporate branding to Alera Group. The firm was started in 1975 and became one of the founding firms of Alera Group in 2017. The transition to Alera …

PCF Insurance Acquires Wisconsin’s Milz Health

PCF Insurance Services has acquired Milwaukee-based Milz Health Group, a full-service health insurance agency providing coverage to Wisconsin Medicare-eligible individuals and coverage through the Affordable Care Act. Milz provides affordable health care coverage for individuals through an integrated suite of …

Understory, Skyward Specialty Launch Insurance Captive Solution for Auto Dealer Market

Understory Inc. a Madison-Wisconsin provider of innovative insurance solutions for climate risk, and Skyward Specialty Insurance Group Inc., a Houston-based specialty insurance company, have partnered to launch a new insurance solution to help U.S. automotive dealerships control the rising cost …

Illinois Contractor Faces $277K in Fines for Deadly Fall Hazard Exposure

Three times in four months, federal safety inspectors observed workers employed by a Calumet City roofing contractor exposed to deadly fall hazards at job sites in Lake Zurich and Wheeling. In each instance, the company’s foremen on site failed to …

16 Hurt When Semitrailer Strikes Bus Carrying Hockey Team in Indiana

Sixteen people have been injured, three critically, after a semitrailer collided with a bus carrying a youth hockey team from Chicago in northern Indiana, police said. Investigators believe alcohol was a factor in the collision and police arrested the semitrailer …

Ohio St. Pays $875K For Failure to Disclose Professor’s Foreign Government Support

The Ohio State University (OSU), a public university in Columbus, Ohio, has paid $875,689 to resolve civil allegations that it failed to disclose an OSU professor’s affiliations with and support from a foreign government in connection with federal research funding. …

OSHA Proposes $145K Fine Against Caterpillar After Worker Death in Ohio

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed fines of $145,027 against Caterpillar Inc. for not installing a guardrail or travel restraint at a foundry outside Peoria where a worker fell into molten iron in June. Steven Dierkes, 39, of …

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