California State Sen. Ron Calderon was stripped of his committee assignments Tuesday amid a federal investigation involving allegations that he accepted money in return for promoting certain bills. The Senate Rules Committee voted unanimously to remove the Los Angeles-area Democrat …
The Arbella Insurance Group has expanded Carpartment insurance to Connecticut, via Bearingstar Insurance agents. Designed to help make renter’s insurance policies simpler and more affordable, Carpartment offers discounts to tenants who insure their cars with Arbella. According to Jim Hyatt, …
Lockton’s Denver, Colo. operation named Shellie Weber vice president of human resources. Weber will focus on organizational and people strategies and solutions. She has led the development of scalable human resource functions in healthcare, high tech, consulting, manufacturing, e-Commerce, financial …
The Roman Catholic bishop of Pittsburgh says that he will refuse to sign a document allowing a third-party insurer to provide preventative reproductive services for employees of a diocese-related charity even if it means that the nonprofit will have to …
A Mississippi man has pleaded guilty to a fraud charge involving $36,300 he received in oil-spill recovery money. The Sun Herald reported that Joseph Anthony Clements will be sentenced Jan. 30 in federal court in Gulfport. Prosecutors say Clements received …
Insurance broker Marsh has appointed Donald Bailey as its new head of sales for U.S. and Canada. In this newly created position, Bailey will be responsible for executing the firm’s overall strategy and increasing the effectiveness of Marsh’s sales team. …
Detroit Mayor-elect Mike Duggan rescued a county, a bus system and a 14,000-worker hospital network, served as a prosecutor, plotted Democratic campaigns and coached his four children’s soccer teams. Now, Duggan, 55, is back-seat driver of a city under state …
City residents annexed by Tupelo, Miss., in 2012 may see two charges for fire protection when they open their tax bills in less than a month. Property owners living in seven of the 17 volunteer fire departments in Lee County, …
Liberty Mutual Insurance said it will acquire Mexican surety company Primero Fianzas from Grupo Valores Operativos Monterrey, a private investor group. The company said the acquisition will enable Liberty Mutual Surety, a business unit of Liberty Mutual’s Global Specialty strategic …
The growing pressure on President Barack Obama to adjust his problem-plagued healthcare law seemed to boil over on Tuesday, as leaders of Obama’s Democratic Party called on him to allow a change in the law so that Americans who are …
