While crossing a small wooden bridge in northwestern Iowa last Thursday, 20 rail tank cars in a mile-long train transporting ethanol flew off the tracks, sending fireballs into the sky, while thousands of gallons of the biofuel leaked into the …
More than half (54 percent) of high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) are concerned that they are underinsured, with many worried their coverage is inadequate for their needs, according to new research published by Chubb. Despite this concern, out of 500 HNWIs surveyed …
XL Catlin’s insurance operation in Iberia announced an extension of its professional indemnity coverage. Traditionally, the coverage protects professional service firms against legal costs and claims for damages to third parties which may arise out of an act, omission or …
Canada’s Eagle Underwriting Group Inc. has teamed up with MS Amlin Marine NV, trading as RaetsMarine, to offer protection & indemnity (P&I) and charterers’ liability insurance in the Canadian marine market. Established in 1996, Eagle Underwriting is a Brampton, Ontario-based …
Current Chairman and President of Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp., Patrick L. White, has acquired an 89 percent ownership stake in Prepared Holdings, LLC and its wholly-owned subsidiaries including Prepared Insurance Company. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has issued a …
Fatal drug overdoses in West Virginia continued to rise last year and its overdose death rate still far outpaces any other state in the country. A Feb. 13 analysis by the West Virginia Health Statistics Center shows at least 818 …
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is nominating a longtime Republican lawmaker to the three-member Workers Compensation Commission. Rep. Mark Formby of Picayune has served in the House since 1993 and helped push a 2012 law that tightened rules about how the …
A Republican plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system shows health care could become unaffordable for many poor Oklahomans and the state could be forced to subsidize health care costs for Native Americans, according to an early analysis of …
When wildfires scorched more than 1 million acres in early March across parts of the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma and Kansas, forecasters used a new weather satellite to see the infernos developing, almost in real time. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports …
California state lawmakers said they are grappling with a growing public safety problem in cities where financially struggling artists are illegally converting warehouses into housing and entertainment venues. The Senate Governance and Finance Committee meeting this week in Sacramento was …
