State auditors have determined a former city clerk and administrator in Arkansas wrote unauthorized checks to herself and used other tactics to misappropriate nearly $185,000 in municipal money. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that auditors who reviewed Sulphur Springs’ finances found …
Great American Insurance Group, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, has hired Matthew (Matt) Brown and Joseph (Joe) Szary as divisional directors within its Fidelity /Crime Division. Brown has 16 years of industry experience with the majority focused on fidelity and crime. …
The State Risk Manager Association recently named the Arkansas Insurance Department’s Public Employee Claims Division (PECD) as the recipient of the 2019 AFIRM Award for its state employee workers’ compensation pharmacy benefit management program in partnership with the UAMS College …
A new research project getting under way around Tuscaloosa aims to document how people react to severe weather. The University of Alabama says research sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Severe Storms Laboratory is meant …
A Texas company has been cited for workplace safety hazards and fined more than $301,000 after an employee fatality at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in April 2019. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Liquid …
An Indiana staffing firm has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a disability discrimination charge brought by federal authorities. Reliable Staffing, an Indianapolis staffing firm, will also furnish other relief to conciliate the charge, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission …
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida-based The Doyle Group, Inc. and its affiliates, collectively doing business as Direct To PolicyHolder (DTPH). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2010, DTPH is an e-commerce …
Insurance brokerage and consulting firm, Virtus, has expanded its Private Equity Practice with the addition of Mike Kesner, John Eichmann, Eric Banduch, Joey Eichmann and Angela Aiello in Chicago. Prior to joining Virtus, this team founded and led one of …
Insurance Office of America (IOA) is has added Charity A. Moser to its growing team in Southwest Florida. She joins the new Bonita Springs branch location as a risk management consultant. Moser is a licensed Florida property and casualty and …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Monday presented the actuarial basis for an average proposed Jan. 1, 2020 advisory pure premium rate of $1.58, which is 5.4 percent less than the average of the current Jan. 1, …
