April 14, 2016
Arthur J. Gallagher& Co. has acquired Insurance Plans Agency Inc. in South Barrington, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1983, Insurance Plans Agency Inc. (IPA) is a retail insurance broker providing group employee benefits products and …
April 13, 2016
Federal investigators looking into the theft of artwork — including Andy Warhol prints of Campbell soup cans — at a southwest Missouri museum hope a $25,000 reward stirs up leads. The Springfield News-Leader reports the FBI announced the reward on …
April 13, 2016
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired the Charles Allen Agency Inc. in Waite Park, Minn. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2010, the Charles Allen Agency Inc. (CAA) is a retail insurance broker that provides commercial …
April 13, 2016
The insurance carrier for the sheriff’s departments in Ward and Burleigh counties has reached a settlement with the family of a jail inmate who died in October 2014. Ward Sheriff’s Maj. Bob Barnard confirmed the settlement but didn’t release details. …
April 12, 2016
State transportation records show an increase in wrong-way highway crashes in Ohio, with more deaths so far in 2016 than in all of 2014. The Dayton Daily News reports Ohio Department of Transportation records show 47 wrong-way interstate highway crashes …
April 12, 2016
Amtrak has filed a federal lawsuit against a southwest Kansas feed yard, accusing it of gross negligence in relation to a train derailment that injured 32 passengers in March. In the suit filed by Amtrak and BNSF, the plaintiffs allege …
April 12, 2016
A group of investors led by Matthew Sackett, former senior vice president of national sales for K&K Insurance and former president and CEO of Leisure Sports Specialists, has announced the formation of DOXA Insurance Holdings LLC (DOXA). The Fort Wayne, …
April 12, 2016
Church Insurance Agency recently joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a cohesive family of nearly 100 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Southern Illinois. Church Insurance Agency, based in Paris, Ill., is a full-service insurance agency that specializes in home, …
April 11, 2016
The derailment of an Amtrak passenger train in Kansas in March that injured more than two dozen people occurred at a site where there had been damage to the track that has been traced to a grain truck, federal authorities …
April 10, 2016
The amount of opioids prescribed to injured Ohio workers has fallen significantly since the state’s insurance fund for injured workers created a pharmacy management program amid concerns about painkiller usage. Fewer than 4,800 workers have been deemed opiate-dependent after exceeding …