California’s violent crime rate has declined 6.6 percent in the past year, according to the California Department of Justice’s annual crime report for 2009, recently released by Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. “Crime in California 2009 – Advance Release” …
North Carolina will issue temporary one-time pyrotechnic licenses to operators instead of the new standard three-year licenses to meet high demand around the July 4th holiday. The Legislature quickly passed and the governor signed legislation last week authorizing Insurance Commissioner …
The San Diego-based John Burnham division of BB&T Insurance Services of California Inc. announces that Dave Beech has joined the company as an employee benefits consultant. In his position, Beech will work with the Employee Benefits Department, which provides consulting …
Michelle DiMartile has been elected president of the Insurance Women of Buffalo (New York) for its 2010 term, starting next month. DiMartile, who specializes in Personal Insurance lines with Russell Bond Insurance Wholesalers, has been active in the group for …
Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has promoted Rolanda Bell to senior underwriter. Bell started at NAS seven years ago as an underwriting assistant. More recently, she has produced healthcare, miscellaneous errors and omissions, employment practices liability, regulatory business interruption and …
A noted Connecticut fertility center has been reprimanded and fined by state regulators after it accidentally transferred a patient’s embryos to another woman with the same last name. The Center for Advanced Reproductive Services at the University of Connecticut Health …
World leaders agreed Sunday to take different paths for cutting budget deficits and making their banking systems safer, a reflection of the uneven and fragile economic recovery in many countries. The following are highlights from quotes by leaders and other …
Alex, the hurricane season’s first named tropical storm, reached that level on Friday, but weakened as it moved across the coast of Belize and El Salvador and over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Two people were reported to have been swept away …
With Tropical Storm Alex skirting the east coast of Mexico and heading north, if residents along the Texas Gulf Coast are thinking it’s a good time to purchase flood insurance from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) they are out …
