An Illinois judge has dismissed the nation’s first class-action concussions lawsuit against a prep sports governing body, saying the Illinois High School Association has taken steps to make football safer and that imposing costly requirements could force some schools to …
Superstorm Sandy in late October 2013 was Ohio’s sixth costliest natural disaster in recent history from an insured loss standpoint, an insurance trade group says. Moving inland after devastating parts of the East Coast, Sandy finally dissipated on Oct. 31, …
The Griffith Insurance Education Foundation announced that Robert P. Restrepo Jr., chairman of Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Cos., received its 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award during a ceremony at the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America’s (PCI’s) annual meeting. Candidates …
A.M. Best has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a-” for Midwest Builders’ Casualty Mutual Insurance Co. (MWBC) and its subsidiaries, Horizon Midwest Casualty …
A North Platte, Neb., man accused of driving his car into a canal so he could collect on his insurance has been sent to prison. Court records say 32-year-old Josh Salisbury was sentenced to 18 to 36 months for insurance …
National Tire and Battery (NTB) will pay $22,500 to a former employee to resolve a national origin and religious harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced. According to EEOC’s suit, an Arab and …
North Dakota’s congressional delegation and others from the state say a proposed $3 billion cut to crop insurance is unacceptable. A two-year budget deal in Congress would reduce federal subsidies to companies that sell crop insurance to farmers, saving $3 …
A plan to make sure an underground St. Louis-area landfill fire doesn’t reach a cache of Cold War-era nuclear waste buried nearby will come before the end of 2015, an Environmental Protection Agency administrator said. Mark Hague, acting chief of …
A judge has declined to prevent private Facebook messages from being considered during a trial of two people charged in an Evansville, Ind., marina fire. The Evansville Courier & Press reports the judge denied the motion to suppress the messages …
A federal jury in Peoria, Ill., has awarded $240,000 to two Somalian-American Muslims who were fired from their jobs as truck drivers at Star Transport, an over-the-road trucking company, when they refused to transport alcohol because it violated their religious …
