A newspaper analysis has found that an increase in the speed limit along stretches of rural Ohio interstates has resulted in more accidents and fewer tickets. The Columbus Dispatch reports that state troopers wrote 55,000 tickets last year on rural …
Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a network of nearly 100 independent agencies in Missouri and Southern Illinois, recently added Cordes Insurance Agency in Shelbyville, Ill. Cordes Insurance Agency, owned by Mark Cordes and Angie Durbin, is a full-service insurance agency …
Terry Miller has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer at Bloomington, Minn.-based SFM Mutual Insurance Co. Miller was the company’s original controller. He rose through the ranks in his 30-plus years at SFM to become vice president …
A jury in Wisconsin has awarded medical software company Epic Systems $940 million in damages in a trade secret lawsuit against Indian information technology provider Tata Consultancies, believed to one of the largest trade-secrets verdicts on record. Epic first sued …
A Colorado mining company will pay $10.3 million to the state of South Dakota and the federal government to cover part of environmental cleanup costs at an abandoned gold and silver mine in the northern Black Hills, a federal agency …
Ryan Von Haden, partner and vice president of Business Accounts with TRICOR insurance in Madison, Wis., has been named the 2016 PIA National Young Insurance Professional of the Year. “You know that a young agent is destined to make his …
Elevated lead or copper levels have been found in the water at 19 Detroit schools, amid testing that is also going on at schools around the country in response to the lead-tainted water crisis in nearby Flint. The district says …
Medical marijuana will be legalized in Ohio by summer, state representatives pledged, calling their legislative effort more responsible and comprehensive than any ballot proposal. The Ohio legislation comes as the national Marijuana Policy Project pursues a medical marijuana issue for …
Jane Crispen of the Knight Insurance Group in Ohio was named the 2016 PIA National Customer Service Representative (CSR) of the Year. The award was presented April 8, 2016, at a ceremony in Arlington, Va., by the National Association of …
A.M. Best has revised the outlook to positive from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of B++ (Good) and the issuer credit ratings of “bbb+” of Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. of Michigan and Farm Bureau General Insurance Co. …
