A Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to participating in a $235,000 arson and insurance fraud conspiracy. Federal prosecutors say 43-year-old Joseph Levi Little is the third person to plead guilty in the scheme. Tina Shonk, of Independence, was sentenced …
Seeman Holtz Property and Casualty Inc. has acquired Vincent, Urban, Walker & Associates, an independent insurance agency headquartered in Green Bay, Wis. Doug Walker and his partners at Vincent, Urban, Walker & Associates have served the Green Bay area and …
J.M. Wilson has acquired assets from Klinger Associates Inc., an Indianapolis-based wholesale insurance broker. The acquisition will allow J.M. Wilson to increase its brokerage business. The J.M. Wilson brokerage department has over 50 combined years of experience. J.M. Wilson is …
A federal jury in East St. Louis, Ill., has awarded $15 million to a 10-year-old boy whose mother blamed his birth defect on AbbVie Inc.’s bipolar disorder drug Depakote that she took while pregnant, in the latest trial among hundreds …
A federal appeals court on June 9 upheld an $11 million verdict against Toyota Motor Corp. over a fatal 2006 car crash in Minnesota, which a jury found was caused by an accelerator defect in a 1996 Camry. A three-judge …
Orland Park, Illinois-based insurance brokerage and risk advisory firm, The Horton Group, has hired Tricia Pucek as chief financial officer. Pucek is responsible for overseeing all corporate accounting, financial reporting and identifying growth opportunities for the agency’s 13 offices located …
Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) announced that Debra Goldberg has joined RSG’s managing general underwriting company, Sapphire Blue, as chief underwriting officer. Goldberg is based at Sapphire Blue’s headquarters in Chicago. Prior to joining Sapphire Blue, Goldberg was the managing director …
A central Ohio village that embraced potential medical marijuana business while some other communities rejected it saw such interest from prospective growers that it has run out of space for that sector. The Columbus Dispatch reports that possible growers have …
The Iowa Supreme Court has ordered a new trial in the case of a Muscatine high school baseball player whose skull was fractured when he was struck by a foul ball during a game in Davenport in 2011. A jury …
Everest Re Group Ltd., based in Hamilton, Bermuda, announced that Jeff Benzin has joined Everest Insurance – as vice president and head of the Midwest Region and John Romano joins as a vice president. Benzin comes to Everest from Avant …
