Rescue workers and search dogs moved gingerly through a dangerously unstable New Orleans hotel in a risky search for the only person still missing after the structure partially collapsed. Two people are known to have died in Saturday’s disaster and …
State auditors have determined a former city clerk and administrator in Arkansas wrote unauthorized checks to herself and used other tactics to misappropriate nearly $185,000 in municipal money. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that auditors who reviewed Sulphur Springs’ finances found …
The State Risk Manager Association recently named the Arkansas Insurance Department’s Public Employee Claims Division (PECD) as the recipient of the 2019 AFIRM Award for its state employee workers’ compensation pharmacy benefit management program in partnership with the UAMS College …
A Texas company has been cited for workplace safety hazards and fined more than $301,000 after an employee fatality at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in April 2019. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Liquid …
A Hard Rock Hotel under construction at the edge of New Orleans’ historic French Quarter collapsed Saturday morning, leaving at least one person dead and three unaccounted for, authorities said. Nearby buildings were evacuated and officials said the building and …
Geoff Godsey has joined Alliant Insurance Services as vice president in Dallas. He will provide a full range of risk and insurance products and services to a growing regional client base as Alliant continues to strengthen its position in the …
Louisiana voters have re-elected Jim Donelon to the post of insurance commissioner, an office he has held since 2006. In the election held on Oct. 12, Donelon received 53.5% of the statewide vote, compared with 46.5% of the vote for …
The University of Louisiana-Monroe (ULM) will create an Endowed Chair in Risk Management and Insurance position in the College of Business and Social Sciences with $585,000 in funding that stems from the dissolution of health maintenance organization AmCare Health Plans …
Fort Worth, Texas-based Higginbotham reports a merger with Diversified Insurance Management an independent property/casualty insurance agency in Plano, Texas. Diversified has a specialty practice serving recreational vehicle (RV) dealerships and RV consumers. The agency opened in 1980 and serves more …
Health officials in Texas say the state has recorded its first death associated with vaping-related lung illnesses. The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed Wednesday that an older woman in north Texas died last week from a lung disease …
