May 5, 2022
Seaglass Insurance Group, with offices in Estero, Florida, is a new managing general agent offering workers’ comp insurance through a national carrier, along with risk management and safety programs. Seaglass was founded by three industry veterans: CEO Tod Austin, who …
May 5, 2022
The experiences of panicked concertgoers who couldn’t breathe and had no clear path to escape a massive crowd surge at last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival in Houston are featured in a documentary released last week. But lawyers for Live …
May 5, 2022
An Arkansas man and a Florida man have been sentenced to prison for their roles in giving kickbacks in compounded cream schemes that defrauded a government insurer of millions of dollars. Federal prosecutors said Brad Duke, 47, of Little Rock, …
May 5, 2022
S&P Global Inc. should “carefully consider” a proposed tweak to how it assesses the creditworthiness of bonds owned by insurance companies, the Justice Department said, warning that such a change “could raise significant concerns” under U.S. antitrust law. The Justice …
May 5, 2022
Main Street Insurance Group recently joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a cohesive family of nearly 150 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois. Founded in 2006, Main Street Insurance Group was acquired in 2018 by owner Josh Hawn, who …
May 5, 2022
Officials at a northwestern Wisconsin oil refinery knew about equipment issues years before a 2018 explosion there, according to Occupational Safety and Health Administration documents obtained by Wisconsin Public Radio. WPR secured nearly 1,300 pages of documents from OSHA that …
May 5, 2022
The mother of a man who was killed in December when a tornado slammed into an Amazon facility in Illinois said on Tuesday that her son was only in the building because he was called into work on his day …
May 5, 2022
A Texas minister is suing Kanye West, saying the rapper, producer and entrepreneur used a recording of one of his sermons without permission in the song “Come to Life.” Dallas County, Texas, pastor David Paul Moten sued West, his label …
May 5, 2022
First Light Program Managers Inc. and NTIS Inc. dba NTIS Transportation Insurance Services of Las Vegas Nevada have entered into an agreement for First Light Program Managers to acquire substantially all of NTIS’s. NTIS, a wholesaler and managing general agency, …
May 5, 2022
Boston-based Safety Insurance Group, Inc. reported first quarter 2022 results showing net income of $7.8 million, compared to $36.2 million for the comparable 2021 period, as auto insurance claim frequency returned to pre-pandemic levels and inflation boosted repair costs. Direct …