Columbus, Ohio, has agreed to pay more than $37,000 to the owners of one of more than two dozen homes damaged last year when a home exploded after a gas leak. The Columbus Dispatch reports City Council members approved the …
Republican Jon Godfread has won the election for insurance commissioner in North Dakota. He will replace Adam Hamm who did not seek re-election. Godfread won with 64.4 percent of the vote, according to the North Dakota Secretary of State’s office. …
An Ohio-based property/casualty insurer experimenting with gamification to educate agents on its specialized products and services is finding that it is learning a lot about its agent force in the process. American Modern Insurance Group, in the final stages of …
Months after two severe storms flooded basements on Detroit’s east side, the city’s water department has decided to pay the claims of all residents who aren’t suing it. The Detroit Free Press reports that hundreds of homes were damaged during …
The Army Corps of Engineers has released a draft environmental impact statement for the proposed Souris River flood protection project in North Dakota’s Ward County and is accepting public comments through Dec. 22. The Minot Daily News reports that the …
A so-called ransomware attack has left police, fire and other government staff in a central Indiana county locked out of their computers. Madison County Commissioner Jeff Hardin tells The Herald Bulletin the county’s voting records and ballots were not affected …
After a $67.5 million jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson on Oct. 27 marked its third straight trial defeat in an onslaught of lawsuits claiming its talc-based products cause ovarian cancer, the company is hoping to reverse the trend by …
PPM Services, the holding company for Preferred Physicians Medical Risk Retention Group Inc. (PPM), has agreed to be acquired by NORCAL Mutual Insurance Co. (NORCAL). Based in Overland Park, Kan., PPM provides medical professional liability insurance for anesthesia practices. The …
Ohio’s addictions agency has issued an awareness alert after a company recalled a device used to deliver the drug overdose antidote naloxone. The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services said the recall by Gurnee, Illinois-based Teleflex Medical does not …
A state system to track prescription painkillers in Wisconsin to prevent abuse shows a nearly 10 percent drop in the number of opioid prescriptions written and filled compared to this time last year. Wisconsin’s Controlled Substance Board recently published its …
