July 11, 2024
New classic and modern collector vehicle insurer, OpenRoad, has announced it will begin offering coverage across select U.S. states on Monday, July 15, 2024. OpenRoad will be centered around Midwest states with coverage becoming available across Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and …
July 11, 2024
An Iowa woman was sentenced on July 2, 2024 after pleading guilty to Tampering With Records (Aggravated Misdemeanor) following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau. Sarah Rahm, age 39, of Bondurant made willful misrepresentations regarding her pet’s …
July 10, 2024
Society Insurance, headquartered in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, elected Sherman Brown of Chicago as a director at its annual meeting of policyholders. Thomas Gross retired from Society’s board of directors after serving for 27 years. Brown is executive vice president …
July 10, 2024
Ford Pro is expanding the availability of its commercial auto coverage, Ford Pro Insure, to Maryland and Minnesota. Ford Pro is underwritten by Ford Credit’s insurance subsidiary and powered by Pie Insurance. Minnesota is the first state with a Ford …
July 10, 2024
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — An assistant fire chief in central Missouri died early Monday when the boat he was in capsized during a water rescue in a flash flood. The Boone County Fire Protection District said Matthew Tobben and another …
July 9, 2024
Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) Director Anita Fox released a new bulletin explicitly prohibiting insurers from discounting labor costs for depreciation when paying a homeowners insurance claim unless the insured has agreed in advance to the reduction …
July 9, 2024
A 16-story apartment building in Ohio may reopen early next month, several weeks after it was temporarily shuttered following a deadly natural gas explosion that severely damaged a neighboring building. Youngstown officials had ordered the evacuation of the International Towers …
July 8, 2024
CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities have suspended the search for a missing boater in Lake Erie after rescuing two others and pulling another person from the water who later died. The U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes station said a distress call …
July 8, 2024
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former reporter for a weekly Kansas newspaper has agreed to accept $235,000 to settle part of her federal lawsuit over a police raid on the paper that made a small community the focus of a …
July 5, 2024
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Early last week, floodwater in rural Minnesota pushed debris against a more than century-old dam and then carved a path around it, eroding so much of the riverbank that most of a house fell into the …