SullivanCurtisMonroe Insurance Services LLC named John Paganas a vice president in its Irvine, Calif. office. Prior to joining SCM, Paganas was a business development associate at National Insurance Brokerage of New York and a project manager at Turner Construction. SCM …
The board of directors for California’s State Fund Compensation Insurance approved a $100 million dividend to qualifying policyholders for the 2013 policy year. The dividend represents roughly 8.6 percent of policyholders’ 2012 estimated annual premium. “State Fund has made significant …
Scientists have developed a new computer modeling technique that offers the promise, for the first time, of producing continually updated daylong predictions of wildfire growth throughout the lifetime of long-lived blazes. The technique, devised by scientists at the National Center …
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is under pressure from some businesses to reduce the information they may soon have to collect and report to the IRS under the health law known as Obamacare, including the birth dates and Social Security …
A New York congresswoman being treated for lung cancer has filed a lawsuit claiming exposure to asbestos as a young woman may have contributed to her disease. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy filed the lawsuit last month in state Supreme Court in …
The Garden-Fresh Foods plant in Milwaukee, Wis., has halted production and reassigned about 100 employees because of product recalls, the company said Nov. 16. Garden-Fresh has recalled tons of products in eight separate recalls since the end of August. The …
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a lumber and shingle manufacturer for safety violations that resulted in the death of a worker at its plant in Superior, Wis. OSHA cited White Cedar Shingles & Lumber for nine …
Victor O. Schinnerer & Co., an underwriting manager, has enhanced its kidnap, ransom and extortion insurance coverage with an updated endorsement, the “Schinnerer Enhanced Endorsement.” Effective immediately, the Schinnerer Enhanced Endorsement broadens the definition of kidnap, ransom, and insured persons, …
The Terrebonne Levee District in Louisiana has designed a phone application that allows boaters to check floodgate closures. Terrebonne Administrative Manager Angela Rains tells The Courier the parish manages nine floodgates. The app called Floodgate Mate is set to go …
Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced that it has begun distributing $2.6 million in workers’ compensation dividends among approximately 3,300 new policyholders. The money represents the final component of Texas Mutual’s $175 million dividend distribution in 2013. Dividends reward loyal policyholders …
