A New Jersey man has admitted to supervising an auto theft ring that authorities say stole over 100 vehicles worth a total of more than $550,000. The Attorney General’s office says 33-year-old Jose D. Lopez of South Amboy pleaded guilty …
The New York Department of Financial Services on Monday approved a revised loss cost filing from the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (NYCIRB) with an effective date of Oct. 1, 2013. As a result, policyholders in New York State …
An official says the deepest part of the 22-acre sinkhole near Bayou Corne, La., is at least 500 feet deep, and not between 110 to 220 feet deep that has been estimated by Texas Brine. John Boudreaux, director of the …
Indianapolis, Ind.-based property/casualty insurance and employee benefits agency, MJ Insurance, has added four employees in its Indianapolis headquarters. Joining MJ Insurance are Lisa Thomas, account manager; Erin Fitz, account coordinator; Stephanie Hamil, commercial lines assistant; and Tony Mallette, IT help-desk …
The Navigators Group Inc. announced that its principal underwriting agency subsidiary, Navigators Management Company, named Timothy D. Ryan as president of the Excess Casualty unit of Navigators Specialty, which focuses exclusively on U.S. wholesale brokers. Prior to joining Navigators, Ryan …
Specialty insurance brokerage firm, Alliant Insurance Services, has promoted senior vice president Todd Hagemeier to executive vice president and managing director of Alliant Healthcare Solutions, the firm’s national healthcare practice. He is based in Dallas. Hagemeier, who joined Alliant in …
A former Bixby, Okla., insurance agent has been sentenced to ten months home confinement after pleading guilty to wire fraud that allowed him to illegally take commissions earned by other insurance agents, the Oklahoma Insurance Department’s (OID) announced. The conviction …
The University of Washington will pay $15.2 million in a medical malpractice judgment after a mistake caused a debilitating brain damage to a girl in 2008. The sum ordered a King County judge is one of the largest medical malpractice …
Washoe County in Nevada has paid $75,000 to settle a civil case involving a college student who claimed a sheriff’s deputy “manhandled” her and used excessive force during an arrest at Lake Tahoe. Lauren Kettell, a student at the University …
The South Dakota Supreme Court says a Sioux Falls company does not have to pay workers’ compensation insurance benefits to the estate of an employee who was shot and killed by her estranged husband in the company’s parking lot. Thirty-eight-year-old …
