Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Group of Companies has appointed Susan Bithell vice president and chief underwriting officer. In her new role, Bithell will oversee the continued alignment of the company’s underwriting strategy, processes and methodology across a number of business …
Roger Walsom has been appointed non-executive director of the UK’s Miller Insurance Investments Limited and Miller Insurance Services Limited. He replaces Ronald Gould, who stood down last September to take up the role of chief executive of Chi-X Asia/Pacific. Walsom …
Commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policies generally cover liability for unsolicited “blast faxes” that violate federal law, a Florida court has ruled. The Supreme Court of Florida issued its ruling Jan. 28 in a case involving a 2003 CGL policy …
Aon announced that it has made six new appointments to its London-based General Aviation team, which specializes in industrial aid and commercial aircraft. “The appointments have been made to further improve business support and create a robust platform for revenue …
The slayings last year of six law enforcement officers, as well as several workplace suicides, caused deaths due to workplace violence to spike upward in Washington State, the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) announced. There were 13 on-the-job homicides …
Bermuda’s Minister of Finance, the Hon. Paula A. Cox J.P., M.P., announced that the island has signed a bilateral agreement with Japan that provides for a full exchange of information on criminal and civil tax matters between the two countries. …
Workers’ compensation costs per claim for medical care of injured workers in Illinois were among the highest of 15 study states one year after implementation of its first medical fee schedule effective 2006, according to a new study by the …
Twice burned, the Putney General Store in Vermont is rising from the ashes. On Monday night, the Putney Historical Society hosted a community gathering to update the status of a rebuilding project being planned for the site where the store …
An 82-year-old Massachusetts woman struck by a fire hose that had come loose from a Cambridge fire engine that was responding to call has died. Cambridge police says Gertrude King died Thursday morning at Massachusetts General Hospital, two days after …
It will still be weeks, into March and April, before the full extent of crop damage and insurance payments from Florida’s recent extended freeze will be known. While Florida’s citrus industry has been hard hit, the state’s nursery plants and …
