The Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA) has been selected as this year’s winner of the DuPont Pioneer InnovationLEADER Award by innovationIOWA Magazine, an annual publication of the Des Moines Business Record. Sponsored by the science and engineering company, DuPont, and managed …
Although a slim majority of insurance companies providing architects and engineers professional liability insurance saw their rates stabilize in 2016, nearly one in three experienced modest decreases in rates. That’s according to a new survey by insurance broker Ames & …
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against three oil and gas companies over Oklahoma’s ongoing earthquakes. The lawsuit, filed last year on behalf of Sierra Club Oklahoma, asked for a reduction of production waste from Devon Energy Corp., Chesapeake …
A tornado with wind speeds of up to 120 mph caused damage to a fire station, elementary school and several other buildings in southwest Missouri, the National Weather Service said. Meteorologist Mike Griffin said the twister that hit around 7 …
A Utah school district agreed to pay $100,000 to the family of a teenage girl who was injured while wearing goggles to simulate drunkenness in a 2014 health class experiment. The Davis School District will put more than $61,000 into …
A federal judge in Seattle, Wash. has temporarily blocked the city’s first-in-the-nation law allowing drivers of ridesharing companies such as Uber and Lyft to unionize over pay and working conditions. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik’s ruling came after he heard …
Representatives for ridesharing companies Uber and Lyft are pushing a bill that would ensure the state of Oregon regulates them instead of individual cities. The Eugene Register-Guard reported representatives said at a hearing this week that the bill would set …
Whether one entity can legally grow and sell marijuana at the retail level in California is emerging as one of the biggest conflicts state authorities are wrestling with as they move to streamline regulations and adopt the same rules for …
Scott Gunter has been appointed senior vice president, Chubb Group, and division president, North America Commercial Insurance. In his new role, Gunter will have executive operating responsibility for the retail commercial property/casualty insurance business that serves the middle market in …
QBE North America has appointed Richard Friesenhahn as head of Multinational for North America. Based in New York, Friesenhahn will support the company’s expansion of multinational services and offerings. Friesenhahn has more than 38 years of industry experience with various …
