Wichert Insurance in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, has appointed Robin Hammond as director of Insurance Operations. In this role, Hammond will assume responsibility for the day to day account manager and service personnel using the Vertafore AMS360 Imagewrite/Worksmart system to assure …
An Illinois jury’s medical malpractice award has been slashed by $15 million because the injured woman died the day before the 2015 trial verdict. The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reports Illinois’ 1st District Appellate Court reduced the award from $22 …
Some Minot, N.D., homeowners are expressing difficulty selling property after discovering city building inspectors failed to identify flawed construction before issuing certificates of occupancy. Then, they discovered the city might not be liable. Resident Jon Newman tells the Minot Daily …
The owner of a Topeka-area auto body and restoration shop says it was “brutal” watching his business burn, knowing that six classic cars inside the building were destroyed. High Torque Racing Auto Body and Paint in Meriden was destroyed in …
Wichert Insurance, a Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio-based independent insurance agency and wholesaler, has appointed Al Thomas to the position of president. Thomas has worked in the capacity of principal of Confluence Insurance Advisors LLC (CIA) as a consultant to Wichert’s acquisition …
DuPont Co. and its spinoff Chemours Co. have been sued by Ohio for dumping a chemical used in Teflon, an action the state said went on for 60 years even though the company knew it was toxic to humans. Ohio’s …
A state of Ohio program established to collect past due taxes from insurance agents has surpassed the $20 million threshold, Ohio Department of Insurance Director Jillian Froment announced. The vast majority of the nearly 220,000 agents licensed by the ODI …
An international staffing company violated federal law when it allowed a manager at a Kansas City, Kan., worksite to repeatedly sexually harass female workers on a manufacturing line, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has charged in a lawsuit …
Federal safety regulators have proposed penalties totaling $194,006 against a Wichita, Kansas-based airline manufacturer for allegedly exposing its employees to a known carcinogen The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited aircraft manufacturer Spirit Aerosystems Inc. …
State transportation officials plan to remove highway guardrail end caps manufactured by a Nebraska company that have been the subject of lawsuits across the country alleging safety defects. The Nebraska Department of Transportation said in a news release that it …
