March 15, 2017
Oklahoma Forestry Services says four wildfires in northwestern Oklahoma and southwestern Kansas are now 42 percent contained, but a high fire danger continues in the region. The agency said that the largest fire is the Starbuck fire that began near …
March 15, 2017
The Texas Senate Business and Commerce Committee on March 9 heard testimony on a revised bill that aims to limit the number of policyholder lawsuits filed against property insurance companies following severe weather events. At the hearing, Senate Business and …
March 15, 2017
Nodak Mutual Insurance Co., based in Fargo, N.D., has completed its conversion from a mutual to stock insurance company and the formation of a mutual holding company Nodak Mutual Group Inc. and an intermediate stock holding company NI Holdings Inc. …
March 15, 2017
A South Dakota state judge has ordered ABC Broadcasting to face a potential $5.7 billion defamation lawsuit claiming it damaged Beef Products Inc. by referring in a series of reports to a meat product it sold as “pink slime.” Judge …
March 15, 2017
St. Louis, Mo.-based Safety National Casualty Corp. has promoted Cyndee Morton, Mitch Neuhaus and Keith Rogers to senior management positions. Morton has been promoted to senior vice president – Operations. Morton is responsible for senior management oversight of the Policy …
March 15, 2017
RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based catastrophe risk management firm, has added agricultural risk models for India and China to its line of emerging risks models, and plans to expand coverage across Asia-Pacific and the Americas. The addition of the models is …
March 15, 2017
The former chief executive of human resources software firm Zenefits, Parker Conrad, on Tuesday made public a new startup that will compete with his old company, marking a comeback by the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who left Zenefits under a cloud. …
March 15, 2017
China’s Anbang Insurance Group said it is not investing in a flagship Manhattan office tower owned by the family of Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser. Anbang Insurance Group was named in a Bloomberg report on …
March 15, 2017
Spills related to oil and gas development in Colorado are down for the second straight year amid a slowdown in drilling. The Daily Sentinel reported Tuesday that an analysis of state data by the conservation group Center for Western Priorities …
March 15, 2017
Ireland has complained to the European Commission that it is being undercut by rival centers competing to host financial firms looking for a European Union base outside London after Brexit. Last week, U.S. insurer AIG became the biggest group so …