An Evansville, Ind., hospital has informed about 4,400 patients that hackers may have stolen their personal information during an attack on hospital employees’ email accounts. St. Mary’s Medical Center spokesman Randy Capehart says the hackers accessed emails that contained names, …
XL Group’s Excess & Surplus (E&S) insurance team is expanding, adding Andrew Miller as underwriting manager for its newest product line, primary auto. Miller joins XL Group’s Chicago office with more than a dozen years of transportation insurance industry experience, …
Officials in the south-central Minnesota city of Gaylord have agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars to a Mexican immigrant to settle a federal lawsuit that alleged racial profiling. Minnesota Public Radio News reports that Gaylord and Sibley County …
Democratic lawmakers in Ohio want the state to consider creating its own health insurance exchange as the U.S. Supreme Court hears a challenge to President Barack Obama’s health care law. People can find health coverage through the exchanges, or marketplaces, …
The Missouri House has given initial approval to a bill to reinstate limits on how much juries can award in noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases against health care providers. Supporters said the limits, approved 101-53, are needed to make …
The Central Insurance Companies, headquartered in Van Wert, Ohio, has appointed John E. White to the board of directors for Central Mutual Insurance and All America Insurance Companies, and the Central Insurex Agency effective Feb. 27, 2015. White has also …
Missourians can now purchase sinkhole coverage through the FAIR Plan, the Missouri Department of Insurance reported. The plan started issuing the standalone Sinkhole Loss policy earlier this year to supplement an applicant’s primary coverage. Sinkholes are depressions or holes in …
Five Cincinnati-area residents have been indicted on multiple counts of alleged insurance fraud for filing a significant number of false insurance claims in 2014 totaling approximately $85,000, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced. The department alleges that as part of …
Lockton’s St. Louis office named Jim Linden as assistant vice president-senior claims consultant in its mining risk management practice. The industry veteran will guide clients as their claims advisor and advocate. Linden will advise Lockton clients in developing robust and …
Lansing, Mich.-based Accident Fund Holdings Inc., a specialty writer of workers’ compensation insurance, named Mitchell Walshas director of strategy and operations. Walsh will lead the strategic efforts of the holding company and its brands to identify business solutions and execute …
