A former insurance company for the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., is seeking to avoid paying for priest sexual abuse settlements. The Chicago Insurance Co. said in a federal court filing that it has no obligation to cover …
The Arkansas State Claims Commission has voted to dismiss a $1 million wrongful death claim against Arkansas State University by the parents of a student who died after being shot at his campus apartment. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that the …
Alabama’s highest court has ruled that a lawsuit involving a deadly 2005 Oklahoma airplane crash is time-barred and must be dismissed. The decision by the Alabama Supreme Court involves the second of two lawsuits filed in that state over the …
Houston-based Global Special Risks LLC (GSR), part of Ryan Specialty Group LLC, announced that Steven J. England has joined GSR as president and CEO. England was formerly with Ironshore as executive vice president for U.S. Field Operations for Ironshore U.S., …
A judge who has presided over most of the litigation stemming from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks will decide whether the owners of the World Trade Center can try to make aviation companies pay billions of dollars in damages. …
Reinsurance brokers Holborn Corp. of New York and W.J. Lehrke Co. of Edina, Minnesota, have agreed to merge. Details were not disclosed. The combined firm is operating under the Holborn name, and all current Lehrke personnel will consolidate with those …
Regions Insurance has established an office in Columbia, S.C. and hired insurance executive Frank Norris to lead the office, its first in South Carolina. Norris and his team join Regions Insurance from Frank B. Norris and Co., a Columbia-based insurance …
It was a runaway train that caused this month’s deadly inferno in Lac-Megantic, but the Canadian town’s leaders, business owners and many of its residents see the railway as crucial to their survival and want it operating again as soon …
Auto insurance giant GEICO promoted Rhett Rayburn to vice president of Southeast operations. He will be based in GEICO’s Macon, Ga., office. Prior to his new role, Rayburn was assistant vice president of claims operations in GEICO’s Tucson, Ariz., office …
Kidnappings of sailors on merchant ships in waters off Nigeria and nearby countries surged in the first half as pirates attacked a broader range of vessels and sought targets farther out at sea. Pirates operating in the Gulf of Guinea …
