Two South Carolina teens have been awarded $500,000 each in a lawsuit over the so-called “choking game” at a Clarendon County camp for children of deployed soldiers or those preparing to go overseas. The Post and Courier of Charleston reported …
Florida small businesses seeing their second workers’ compensation rate increase in as many years are calling on the state to reduce the increase because they fear it will harm the economy. A small business group is asking that the increase …
Down in the basement of Steve Jones’ southeast Huntsville home, just past the electrical workshop, is a door into an unfinished sub-basement. Here, on a concrete base on a rock outcropping, sits Jones’ latest homemade seismometer inside its sealed plastic …
Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. has name Juliene Conway its chief marketing officer. In Conway’s role, she will lead the market management team and be responsible for agent and policyholder intelligence, innovation, marketing and communications. Conway will succeed Eleanor Barnard, current …
XL Group’s insurance segment has added excess auto coverage to its excess and surplus product offerings. The company has hired Michael Gramm to manage the new product line. He will join the company as vice president – excess auto and …
Authorities say four men suffered burn injuries on Jan. 12 in an explosion at a business in south Edmond, Okla. Edmond Fire Department Maj. Kelly Lewis told reporters at the scene that one man suffered third-degree burns and the others …
On Jan. 30, 2012, the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS) will begin adding medical certification status and medical examiner’s certificate information to commercial driver’s license system (CDLIS) records. The DPS noted that driver physical qualification requirements are not changing. …
A state workers’ compensation commissioner has filed a lawsuit accusing Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad of discrimination because the governor cut his salary by more than $30,000 after he declined to resign. Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Chris Godfrey filed the lawsuit …
A Douglas County, South Dakota sheriff’s deputy has pleaded guilty to one count of grand theft by deception for submitting fraudulent applications to an insurer. The Mitchell Daily Republic reports that Rob Hotchkiss of Delmont entered his plea on Jan. …
A man who claims to have been sexually abused as a child by former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky is asking to intervene in an insurance lawsuit, according to a local news report. The Centre Daily Times in Pennsylvania reports …
