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People Moves: Liberty Names Orozco Employee Benefits Producer in Calfornia

The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers named Christopher Orozco an employee benefits producer. Orozco will be based in California. Orozco got his start in the mail room at Warner Pacific in 2013, then transitioned from the supply department to rating analyst. …

Subpoenas on Agencies and Officials Delay Release of Key Report into Deadly Hawaii Wildfire

Hawaii’s attorney general blamed a delay of the release of a key report into a deadly Maui wildfire on county agencies that forced investigators to issue subpoenas. The first phase of an independent investigation into the Aug. 8 fire that …

People Moves: Aspire in California Names McQuaid VP of Product; CWCI Elects 2024 Board of Directors

Aspire Appoints McQuaid VP of Product Aspire General Insurance, headquartered in Rancho Cucamonga, California, named Pam McQuaid vice president of product. McQuaid has more than 25 years of extensive experience in insurance product management. She comes from Liberty Mutual/Safeco, where …

Nevada Casino Settles for $500K for Incidents Involving Security Officers

Nevada gambling regulators fined a hotel-casino in Laughlin a record $500,000 in a settlement with the state Gaming Control Board stemming from a pair of incidents involving security officers who roughed up a patron and a resort employee nearly two …

Lawsuit in New Mexico Alleges Abuse by Catholic Priest Decades Ago

A man who says he was sexually abused as a boy by a priest in New Mexico in the 1960s sued the church and diocese this week, the latest case to surface in the state as the Roman Catholic Church …

California Work Safety Board Approves Indoor Heat Rules, But Another State Agency Raises Objections

As global warming raises temperatures, a California work safety board has approved standards that would require companies to protect employees from excessive indoor heat, particularly in warehouses. The rules still need to overcome opposition by another state agency. The rules …

People Moves: Aspire in California Names Daniel Director of Underwriting

Aspire General Insurance named Tracy Daniel director of underwriting. Daniel has more than 26 years of leadership experience in the underwriting field. Most recently, she was the underwriting associate operations manager for car at Lemonade, and an underwriting specialist at …

10 Years After Washington Landslide, Climate Change Is Increasing The Danger

After the mountainside collapsed, obliterating a neighborhood and 43 lives in the worst landslide disaster in U.S. history in Washington, Jessica Pzsonka made a promise -– to herself, to her bereft parents and to her late sister, who was buried …

Pinnacol in Colorado Issues $15M Dividend to Businesses

Pinnacol Assurance issued $15 million general dividend to businesses throughout Colorado. This is the ninth straight year Pinacol has issued dividends to customers. Pinnacol Assurance operates similarly to a mutual insurer, treating customers as its owners, which makes them eligible …

Washington Insurance Commissioner Fines Company $100K for Operating Illegally

Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler fined First Premier Home Warranty Corp. $100,000 and ordered the New York-based home warranty company to stop conducting insurance business in Washington. The cease-and-desist order notes that First Premier submitted a service contract provider application …

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