September 13, 2023
A pair of Iowa men were charged with insurance fraud following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau. Trey Wysocki, age 40, of New Virginia was charged with one count of Insurance Fraud – Presenting False Information (Class …
September 13, 2023
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – A wheel came off a pickup truck on an Indianapolis freeway, bounced over a median and crashed into the windshield of another vehicle, killing its driver Monday, police said. The woman driving the second vehicle was pronounced …
September 13, 2023
MADELIA, Minn. (AP) – A meat processing company in Minnesota on Friday agreed to pay $300,000 in penalties after an investigation found it employed children as young as 13 to work in hazardous conditions, such as operating meat grinders, while …
September 12, 2023
On March 27, 2023, an 18-year-old employee of a Missouri contractor was applying sealant to a commercial building’s roof when he fell more than 22 feet and suffered serious injuries that left him in a coma for five days before …
September 12, 2023
DETROIT (AP) – Property owners seeking to hold the state of Michigan responsible for the disastrous failure of a dam in 2020 have won a critical ruling from an appeals court. The court said claims of “inverse condemnation” – state-imposed …
September 11, 2023
MarshBerry, an investment banking and consulting firm serving the insurance distribution and wealth management industries based in Woodmere, Ohio, announced that FirstChoice, a MarshBerry Company, has welcomed its 500th member to the network. “We are so pleased to achieve this …
September 11, 2023
A Sunday evening explosion in Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.’s processing complex in Decatur, Illinois, has injured at least eight people, according to the Decatur Fire Department. The blaze was largely under control within a few hours, but a crew remains on standby …
September 11, 2023
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A northern Wisconsin sawmill has agreed to pay nearly $191, 000 and stop hiring children under 16 to settle a federal lawsuit labor regulators filed after a teenager was killed on the job this summer and …
September 8, 2023
CHICAGO (AP) – A lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses nine mobile home community management companies and a mobile home market data provider of conspiring to fix and inflate lot rental prices at more than 150 locations across the U.S. The …
September 8, 2023
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced the Kansas Insurance Department (KID) has returned dollars to group-funded pools following the enactment of legislation that does away with two assessment fees. The Department introduced and successfully lobbied for the passage of legislation …