Online insurance agency Answer Financial Inc. is relocating its main Tennessee call center to West Knoxville. The office is slated to open next week. The agency is celebrating its new state-of-the-art sales center with a Career Fair and open house …
Connecticut’s venerable insurance industry is making a pitch for business just as the new federal health insurance marketplace begins to take shape. Trade group The Connecticut Captive Insurance Association has scheduled a meeting on Wednesday in Stamford. Group President Tom …
A federal court has ordered S.E.M. Villa II Inc., a nonprofit corporation that operates S.E.M. Terrace, a retirement facility in Milford, Ohio, to pay a former resident manager $20,000 in back wages in a whistleblower case. The complaint alleged that …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Fort Worth F&D Head Co. for 18 serious safety violations, carrying $88,200 in proposed penalties, for exposing workers to struck-by and amputation hazards. OSHA’s Fort Worth Area Office …
A new survey of business leaders in nine Midwest and Plains states suggests that manufacturing growth will help fuel the regional economy through the end of the year, according to a report released on Oct. 1. The overall Mid-America Business …
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is considering a proposal to shift state employees from health maintenance organizations to a state self-insured program. Employers that are self-insured carry the risk for losses and pay benefits directly to employees. At least 20 states …
A Louisiana state auditor says a Lacombe-area recreation district went uninsured for a year despite paying a Slidell insurance agency $10,000 for a commercial and general liability policy. The auditor says the St. Tammany Parish’s 4th Recreation District paid the …
Specialty insurance brokerage firm, Alliant Insurance Services Inc., has acquired EnRisk Services Inc., a Fort Worth, Texas-based firm that specializes in insurance and risk management for the energy industry. EnRisk has specialized in the insurance and risk management needs of …
Colorado homeowners living in high-risk wildfire areas should be charged fees, and officials need to adopt statewide building requirements to address destructive fires, according to recommendations Monday from a group convened by Gov. John Hickenlooper. The recommendations seek to shift …
A bipartisan proposal to delay federal flood insurance rate hikes that took effect Tuesday is being stymied by a bitter congressional dispute over President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, Sen. Bill Nelson said. Nelson, D-Fla., along with U.S. Sens. …
