St. Louis, Mo.-based O’Connor Insurance has hired Jacque Brandel as personal lines account manager and Laura Dobyns as commercial lines account manager. The agency also promoted Elizabeth Schurwan to assistant commercial lines manager. Brandel is a Certified Insurance Service Representative …
The 2012 partial repeal of Michigan’s universal motorcycle helmet law resulted in less helmet use and more head injuries, according to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health. Researchers compared helmet use rates and motorcycle crash fatality …
The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s (IICF) Midwest Division raised more than $8,000 through its World Series-related fundraiser to support its Midwest Division Community Grants Program. The program helps local community non-profits focused in the areas of health, safety and education. …
A Missouri jury has awarded a $37.5 million judgment to a man left a paraplegic after a 2014 accident involving a vehicle and a tractor-trailer. The Kansas City Star reports that the Jackson County jury sided with Steve Holdeman during …
The city of West Des Moines, Iowa, has agreed to pay nearly $2 million to a police officer who sued, saying the department’s former police chief discriminated against her because she’s a woman. The city announced the $1.9 million settlement …
A group of healthcare stakeholders have asked Gov. Scott Walker to consider how self-insuring state workers could affect Wisconsin’s economy and its health care market. The Wisconsin Hospital Association, the Wisconsin Medical Society and a dozen other groups said the …
Managing general agency and surplus lines insurance broker, J.M. Wilson Corp., has promoted Adam Mandwee to fleet underwriter in its Portage, Michigan, office. Mandwee is responsible for quoting new and renewal fleet transportation accounts, setting up and binding policies and …
A lawsuit has been filed by 18 passengers who were aboard an American Airlines aircraft that caught fire last month on the tarmac of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport after an engine failed. The lawsuit filed Nov. 14 in Cook County …
More than 22,000 chickens are dead after a fire at a barn in north-central Ohio. The smoke was visible for miles as the fire burned Nov. 14 at a Mennonite poultry operation in Nova Township, north of Ashland. It took …
Britton Gallagher, a Cleveland based employee benefits and commercial insurance broker, has appointed Jeremy Bryant president. Bryant has been with Britton Gallagher since 2012, most recently serving as one of the agency’s executive vice presidents. He has more than 20 …
