MJ Insurance recently hired Michaela Neal, Margaret Gloyeske and Jacob Jones in Indianapolis, Ind., where the independent agency is headquartered. Neal, an intern in the risk management department during the Spring semester, continues on with the MJ team as risk …
H.W. Kaufman Financial Group has acquired Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Chlystek & White Services (CWS) Inc. – a regional insurance premium audit services company. CWS will become part of Afirm, Kaufman’s international provider of premium audits, loss control, and risk services. …
Missouri lawmakers effectively eliminated funding for sobriety checkpoints for the fiscal year that begins in July, a move by a core group of critical conservative Republicans that officials say could hinder or end the manpower-intensive practice in some areas of …
Ten lawyers and six others were charged in a multi-million-dollar workers’ compensation fraud scheme that authorities say targeted Latinos in California. The charges were filed after a multi-year investigation into a scheme involving the illegal recruitment of more than 30,000 …
The Cody Gunfighters show in Wyoming will not resume anytime soon. And that’s because the organizers can’t get insurance. The Cody Enterprise reported the performers were unable to acquire liability insurance, which keeps the show on the shelf for the …
The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry, which has been facing rising claims bills for extreme weather events, mostly reacted with silence to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the country from the Paris climate change accord. While corporate leaders from finance, …
The first of tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits went to trial on Monday in Kansas against Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta over its decision to introduce a genetically engineered corn seed variety to the U.S. market before China approved it …
Note: This article originally ran in the Texas Tribune. Thanks to new money and oversight from the Texas Legislature, the state can now pursue workers’ compensation fraud cases without relying on an unusual and much-criticized funding deal between a private …
John Finston, most recently deputy commissioner and general counsel for the California Department of Insurance, has joined Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as a partner. Finston will work from the firm’s San Francisco office. He was named to the CDI …
RIC Insurance General Agency has named Mandi Strange a business development manager focused on the Western region. Strange will expand the company’s personal and commercial lines marketing efforts, working primarily with retail insurance agents in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. She …
