A former power line worker for Pacific Gas & Electric has been awarded more than $1 million in a wrongful termination suit that claimed he was fired after making safety complaints. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported 44-year-old Matthew Niswonger filed …
The fire at Chevron Corp.’s refinery in Richmond, Calif., last year that sickened thousands was caused by the company ignoring a decade’s worth of calls for inspections and upgrades of piping that eventually corroded and failed, a federal safety report …
Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is looking for residents who might be victims of a Seattle attorney who has been charged with four felonies related to a $500,000 insurance settlement. Seattle private law attorney Edward Joseph Callow and former Nationwide …
Autopsies conducted on two workers who were struck and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit train during a labor strike have revealed that the men did not follow the agency’s safety protocols. The Contra Costa Times reported that a …
A 29-year-old Wasilla, Alaska man suspected of driving a snowmobile down the Parks Highway has been charged with felony driving under the influence of alcohol. Alaska State Troopers say Eric Hunter was arrested Wednesday night and also is charged with …
Laurie Hoag-Winkler has been named senior vice president, employee benefits practice leader, for USI Colorado. USI Colorado is the firm formerly known as Van Gilder Insurance Corp. USI Insurance Services officially closed its previously announced acquisition of Van Gilder Insurance …
California safety officials have issued more than $50,000 in fines against an elevator company whose employee was killed while working at the San Francisco 49ers’ new stadium in Santa Clara. Sixty-three-year-old mechanic Don White was killed June 11 by an …
Horst Leonard Lechler, former president of Anderson & Murison in Pasadena, Calif. and past president of the American Association of Managing General Agents, was a “student of the business” and a “remarkable insurance person” his friends and colleagues say. Lechler, …
Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named Andrew Valencia in the firm’s New Mexico office as vice president of employee benefits. He specializes in the development and implementation of group health, dental, vision, wellness, life and disability plans. Prior to …
Property/casualty agent Rodger Edward Winkler, 64, a was arrested by Shasta County District Attorney investigators in Northern California and charged with numerous felonies, including grand theft, insurance fraud and petty theft. The charges stem from Winkler allegedly collecting insurance premiums …
