Two more fires burned businesses early Thursday in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. Fire Department spokeswoman Dana Vander Houwen says a fire at 3:43 a.m. burned the back porch of an accounting office. A fire a 4:11 a.m. burned the exterior of …
California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner yesterday announced that Byron Andres Prado, 21, of Northridge was convicted November 2 of one count of misdemeanor identity theft. He was sentenced to 53 days served in jail after committing perjury on insurance licensing …
State Farm Fire and Casualty Company is going to have to pay the defense costs of the two former agents the insurance company fired, and then sued, according to a court decision handed down last week. The well-known dispute between …
NAS Insurance Services has promoted Genevieve Alexander to Senior Underwriter. Ms. Alexander started at NAS six years ago as an underwriting assistant. She has underwritten a broad range of NAS products. More recently, Genevieve has had much success producing MEDEFENSE™, …
Riverside-based Patrion Insurance has named Dennis Silva of Murrieta as Senior Sales Executive. Prior to joining Patrion Insurance, Silva spent six years as a broker with an Orange County insurance brokerage. Previously, he spent five years with a large regional …
Mindful that the suburban West Bank of New Orleans has regained its pre-Hurricane Katrina population and is primed for growth, the Army Corps of Engineers is launching a $1 billion effort to keep the next storm at bay. The new …
SAN DIEGO, CA (November 5, 2009) — Insurance Journal, the world’s leading news source for the property/casualty insurance industry, has launched a new iPhone application, that allows readers to quickly view news and multimedia content published on the magazine’s Web …
Florida’s Insurance Consumer Advocate said he is trying to find a lawmaker to help him ban a practice that sticks patients with big bills their health plans won’t cover. Sean Shaw, Florida’s Insurance Consumer Advocate, told Health News Florida that …
Fire officials say six people, including four firefighters, were taken Tuesday to a hospital because of a toxic spill inside a supermarket in Irvine. Orange County Fire Authority Captain Greg McKeown said firefighters were called to the Ralphs market at …
A cluster of brush fires believed ignited by a malfunctioning truck threatened suburban homes and swept past a high school before aircraft and firefighters quashed its spread Tuesday. Four civilians suffered minor injuries from smoke inhalation and a firefighter suffered …
