Leathers Insurance Agency has joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance, a network of more than 100 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois. Founded in April 2016, Leathers Insurance Agency is a full-service insurance agency located in California, Mo., that specializes …
The Missouri Department of Insurance recovered over $9 million for consumers who filed complaints against their insurance companies during the first nine months of 2016. In the first three quarters of 2016, the Consumer Affairs Division received 3,182 formal complaints. …
Federal safety regulators have proposed nearly $527,000 in penalties against the operators of a northeast Nebraska grain facility where a worker was fatally injured. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in a news release that it cited Prinz Grain …
Dallas-based Lockton Dunning Benefits (LDB) has relocated Excelsior Solutions, its main pharmacy consulting practice, to a new home at 7650 Edinborough Way, Suite 100, Edina, Minnesota. In 2012, LDB merged with Excelsior Solutions, which specializes in pharmaceutical and healthcare consulting. …
Illinois is marking its first year of medical marijuana sales as more states voted on Election Day to allow legal use of the drug. Despite anecdotes of medical marijuana’s positive influence on patients, broader data and randomized clinical trials of …
A jury has ruled the city of Chicago must pay nearly $2.5 million to a Chicago Transit Authority train operator who was injured after a police car chasing a bicyclist ran into a Brown Line train. CTA worker Jeffery Bryant’s …
Officials say the Lansing Board of Water & Light in Michigan has paid a $25,000 ransom to unlock its internal communications systems after they were disabled in the spring by a cyberattack. General manager Dick Peffley told the Lansing State …
Five former students of a suburban Chicago high school will receive $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed in connection with hazing allegations. Officials of Maine Township High School District 207 say they and plaintiffs’ attorney Antonio Romanucci agreed to …
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired the Regency Group (Regency), a wholesale insurance broker and program administrator located in East Lansing, Michigan. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1981, Regency provides group and large firm self-insured, …
Officials in Iowa’s Black Hawk County have agreed to pay $30,000 to a man who scuffled with an off-duty sheriff’s deputy after a traffic dispute. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports the county’s board of supervisors voted unanimously to pay the …
