The Michigan Automobile Insurance Placement Facility has announced that Terri A. Miller, its executive director, is leaving after nearly 20 years in that role. Karyn Spaude, MAIPF’s controller, was named interim director as the organization seeks to fill the position. …
Human error and labeling and design problems led to the release of a large chemical cloud over a northeast Kansas city that sent more than 140 people to the hospital last year and caused others to stay indoors or evacuate …
Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group has named Julie F. Kadnar divisional president of its Property and Inland Marine Division, succeeding Dale Kelley, who will retire in June 2017. Kadnar joined the company in 1988 as a senior auditor and …
The Iowa House has approved legislation that would cap financial awards in medical malpractice lawsuits except in severe cases. The House approved the bill 65-32 to limit pain and suffering payouts at $250,000 in most cases of medical malpractice and …
Missouri Senators has passed a bill that would expand regulations for transportation companies such as Uber and Lyft — a measure that legislative leadership and Gov. Eric Greitens have called a job creator and an economic development tool for the …
An explosion on April 11 at a sprawling ammunition plant near Kansas City, Missouri, killed one worker and injured four others, the U.S. Army said. The blast at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, just east of Kansas …
The Legislature has sent the governor a bill that would let police officers stop and ticket drivers who were texting while driving. The legislation approved by the House would take effect July 1 if Gov. Terry Branstad were to sign …
AssuredPartners NL has promoted Chief Operating Officer Todd Stocksdale to an expanded role as president of AssuredPartners NL and Midwest regional president for AssuredPartners Inc. As the president of AssuredPartners NL, Stocksdale will oversee strategic growth, and expansion of the …
An Omaha, Neb., mortuary and its insurers have sued a Pennsylvania company, alleging that it didn’t properly rebuild a cremation machine blamed for a fire that injured four people. The Jan. 26, 2016, blaze heavily damaged the Heafey-Hoffmann-Dworak-Cutler funeral chapel. …
Natural disasters can strike at any time, often without warning, and devastate cities, regions, states and countries. Nature Unleashed, a new exhibit at the Indiana State Museum, aims to help Hoosiers understand why tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions …
