Insurance Office of America has added Dave Johnson to the Western region team as an employee benefits consultant Johnson joins the Las Vegas, Nev., office. He was previously co-owner and vice president of Leavitt Group Benefits Services. IOA is an …
A janitorial contractor in the Cleveland suburb of Cuyahoga Heights will pay $315,000 to settle federal charges of age and disability discrimination. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says that an investigation revealed that Janitorial Services Inc. & Arbeit …
Tim Flatt has joined Fort Worth, Texas-based independent insurance broker, Higginbotham, as an employee benefits executive vice president. Flatt will open Higginbotham’s first Midland office, bringing the firm’s single source solution for insurance to Midland’s middle market businesses. Hiring Flatt …
A northwestern Indiana hospital system is warning more than 68,000 patients that their personal information, including Social Security numbers and health records, may have been exposed during a data breach. Methodist Hospitals has been mailing letters to patients detailing the …
GuideOne Insurance in West Des Moines, Iowa, has appointed Mark Groenheide as senior vice president, Specialty. In this role, Groenheide is responsible for growing and managing the business by focusing on niche specialty markets and targeted distribution with opportunities for …
AmeriTrust Group Inc. in Southfield, Michigan, has promoted Dave Sheeran, executive vice president of Meadowbrook Insurance, to president of the Meadowbrook Insurance Agency. Sheeran has been with Meadowbrook for 10 years. He brings a strong accounting background and extensive knowledge …
Insured losses from Typhoon Hagibis, which made landfall in Japan on Oct. 12, will be between 865 billion Japanese yen (US$8 billion) and JPY 1,730 billion (US$16 billion), with more than half of the losses due to inland flooding, according …
A former beauty salon director who went public about sexual misconduct allegations against casino mogul Steve Wynn nearly two years ago is suing Wynn Resorts and company executives, alleging they invaded his privacy and spied on him at his next …
Some of the people rushing to emergency rooms thought the CBD vape they inhaled would help like a gentle medicine. Others puffed it for fun. What the vapors delivered instead was a jolt of synthetic marijuana, and with it an …
Authorities say an early morning house explosion in the eastern Pennsylvania city of Allentown blew off the front of the row home and led to a fire that spread to nine other homes, but no serious injuries were immediately reported. …
