Wisconsin insurance industry leaders are worried a potential state move toward self-insurance is already on its way to a done deal. At a Wisconsin Health News panel, panelists and audience members critiqued the possible change, which would reshape health insurance …
Wisconsin-based Ashley Furniture has agreed to pay $1.75 million to settle alleged safety violations at four of its plants, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said. Ashley Furniture entered into a corporate-wide agreement aimed at protecting workers from machine …
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed two bills aimed at expanding patient access to either cheaper biologic drugs or more expensive prescriptions. Nixon signed the legislation on June 8. One bill includes new rules for step therapy, which is the …
More than a half million Missourians are at risk because of the contracting earthquake insurance market, Missouri Department of Insurance Director John M. Huff said during the recent Heartland Insurance Symposium in Kansas City, Mo. Huff discussed the near record …
A federal appeals court has voided a $30 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan involving price-fixing allegations. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals said that key details of the settlement were wrongly sealed …
Peoria, Ill.-based specialty insurer, RLI Corp., promoted Dan Meyer to president of the RLI Transportation Division. Meyer succeeds Dave Dunn, who recently departed the company to pursue other opportunities. Meyer joined RLI in 2000 as a claim manager and transitioned …
Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired KRW Insurance Agency Inc. located in Crystal Lake, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in the 1940s, KRW Insurance Agency (KRW) is a retail insurance broker providing commercial …
Wisconsin Commissioner of Insurance Ted Nickel has appointed J.P. Wieske as deputy commissioner. He previously served as legislative liaison and public information officer for the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI). Wieske has more than 20 years of experience …
A Missouri insurance agent has been sentenced to prison for fraud following an investigation by the McDonald County Sheriff’s Office and the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions & Professional Registration (DIFP). Southwest Missouri insurance producer Brandon Gene Francisco was …
The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) announced that Mike Prandi of Ohio-based Westfield Insurance has been elected to a two-year term as chairman of the board of governors. Prandi, named insurance operations leader at Westfield in 2015, has been a …
