Hundreds of people who canceled a cruise vacation booked though Florida travel agents because of illness say the insurer didn’t pay. Health News Florida reports that Florida’s Department of Financial Services began its investigation into Prime Travel Protection Services a …
Oklahoma State Rep. Steve Martin has filed a bill that would allow law enforcement officials to impound vehicles that are found to be uninsured. “This bill addresses one of the most consistent demands of voters in my district and across …
State Rep. Ken Guin says Alabama needs to ban people from text messaging while driving a motor vehicle, and a recent experience with a driver swerving “all over the road” is a reason why. “I started to drive around her. …
Jeff Ward, a director of London Market reform technology specialists TriSystems, and his colleagues have been busy lately. They’ve been working on the latest version of an electronic communications service for London’s brokers. With the official launch planned for Fenruary …
Mississippi’s insurance regulator, as he earlier indicated he would do, has denied a request from Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Co. for a statewide home insurance price hike of about 60 percent. The increase would have affected about 50,000 policyholders. …
Low-wage workers in Los Angeles experience more wage and labor violations than low-wage workers in Chicago and New York, a new study by the UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment has found. The survey found that low-wage workers …
The Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association (FAIR Plan) will lower insurance premiums by an average of 0.72 percent, the Attorney General’s office said. The FAIR Plan had originally proposed increasing homeowners’ insurance rates by an average of 2.2 percent. That …
The Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont has a new owner. The resort’s previous owner, the American International Group, had transferred ownership to its P/C insurance division, Chartis. Ski operations, two golf courses and a new upscale lodge are now owned …
A woman says a Manhattan gym left her hanging when she tried a new workout: pole-dancing. Sue Ann Wee filed a lawsuit last week against the companies that run the Crunch fitness center chain. Lawyer Nicholas Warywoda says Wee seriously …
Liberty Mutual Group, through its wholly owned subsidiary Liberty Insurance Company Limited (LICL), has been granted approval to establish a branch in Zhejiang by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC). Liberty Mutual’s Chinese operations are headquartered in Chongqing. The CIRC …
