September 23, 2011
With aid to disaster victims running out, the U.S. Senate Democratic leader Friday vowed to hold a quick vote to defeat a House-passed spending bill, clearing the way for negotiations to avoid a government shutdown. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
September 23, 2011
It can talk, see, drive and no longer needs a human being to control it by remote. The car of the future — completely computer-controlled — is on the streets of Berlin. All summer, researchers from the city’s Free University …
September 23, 2011
Florida officials and the state’s-backed property insurer were working to find common ground in the aftermath of the political firestorm over the insurer’s proposed large hike sinkhole coverage rates, with the insurer indicating it will implement the approved rates that …
September 23, 2011
Insurance broker USI Insurance Services has acquired de la Parte & Associates, a Tampa, Florida, employee benefits and insurance consulting firm. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Kim M. de la Parte, CEO and founder of de la Parte …
September 23, 2011
XL Insurance, the global insurance underwriting operations of XL Group plc, has appointed two vice presidents – senior program executives to its North America program team, adding Virginia Chase in Boston and Michael B. Mandziara in Chicago. Chase joins XL …
September 23, 2011
Members of Congress from both sides of the Red River in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota are asking President Barack Obama to include $30 million in his next budget for work on a river diversion project in the Fargo-Moorhead …
September 23, 2011
U.S. deep-sea explorers must turn over to the Spanish government 17 tons of silver coins and other treasure recovered from a sunken Spanish galleon in 2007, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. But Tampa, Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration has vowed …
September 23, 2011
State and federal officials are cautioning South Dakota flood victims that time might be running out to file flood insurance claims. Normally, claims for flood damage under policies underwritten by the National Flood Insurance Program must be filed within 60 …
September 23, 2011
East Texas is deeply rooted in the timber industry — and during the last 10 months, wildfires have wiped out more than $97 million worth of the region’s trees, the Texas Forest Service reports. Since wildfire season began on Nov. …
September 23, 2011
Dallas-based privately owned insurance and risk management firm, MHBT, announced that Jared Alan Moss has joined the Austin, Texas, office as an employee benefits account executive. Moss will be responsible for business development and benefits consulting. Moss has been in …