July 16, 2013
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 …
July 16, 2013
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 …
July 16, 2013
Main Street America announced it will stop writing new Spring Valley Mutual Co. personal lines and farm business in Minnesota as of Aug. 15, 2013, and non-renew existing policies effective Oct. 1, 2013. Non-renewal notices will begin going out to …
July 16, 2013
Newly-formed Ink Underwriting in Kennesaw, Georgia, said it has acquired Pioneer Programs Insurance Solutions, a Pasadena, California-based niche insurance program administrator for the construction and long term care industries. The firm said Pioneer Programs, which was formed in 2008, has …
July 16, 2013
Global insurance, risk and management consulting firm Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. in New York has named Nicole Gardner as chief diversity and inclusion officer. In her new role, Gardner is responsible for “driving cultural and organizational change at Marsh …
July 16, 2013
Hub International Insurance Services named Viesha Treadwell senior vice president of their San Francisco Commercial Division. Treadwell will be responsible for business development and sales. Treadwell and her team will be based at one of Hub’s newest locations in San …
July 16, 2013
North Carolina’s two residual homeowners insurance markets have jointly issued $500 million in pre-event catastrophe bonds to ensure they have enough money on hand to quickly pay claims following hurricanes and other named storms. The North Carolina Joint Underwriting Association …
July 16, 2013
A federal judge is days away from deciding if New York developer Larry Silverstein can recover as much as $3.5 billion from airlines for damages to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, on top of more than $4 …
July 16, 2013
Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, said it’s cutting some retirement benefits for employees in a move that will increase book value by a range of $1.70 to $2 a share. The adjustments include a …
July 16, 2013
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina shares private information of hundreds of thousands of its clients to an outside company that helps design its software. The company told The News & Observer of Raleigh that it protects the …