Imperial Sugar has agreed to pay more than $4 million in fines for safety violations at its Georgia refinery where a dust explosion killed 14 workers in 2008, federal regulators said. The settlement with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health …
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) announced tthat it will implement an overall rate reduction of 4.1 percent beginning Oct. 1, 2010. This marks the sixth consecutive year that LWCC has reduced overall rates, and it comes on the heels of …
God only knows what will happen to churches and other nonprofit organizations that say they are struggling for survival because of the Gulf oil spill crisis. Months after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and its well started gushing oil, the …
A West Monroe, La., agent has been served by Department of Insurance Fraud Section Investigators with a cease and desist order, a summary suspension order and fine notice for alleged misappropriation and misrepresentation. Michael Ryan Evans, 26, who faces a …
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) has promoted two longtime managers to director positions. Debra Taylor is now the director of Human Resources, and Jill Breard is the director of Risk Management Services Operations. Taylor has worked at LWCC since 1992, …
John Wortman, CEO of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens), the state’s property insurance of last resort, has announced plans to retire. “John Wortman has been a tremendous asset to Louisiana during our recovery from the catastrophic hurricanes of 2005. …
An area of disturbed weather over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico could strengthen into a tropical storm later this week, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Monday. If it revs up to cyclone force, the system would become the second …
The median six-month auto insurance rate in Michigan has increased approximately 5.4 percent over the last six months to reach $688, according to online insurance provider InsWeb. InsWeb also reported some findings of Michigan median auto insurance rates segmented by …
As the hurricane season gains momentum, a new U.S. Census Bureau report, Coastline Population Trends in the United States: 1960 to 2008, helps put into perspective the number of Americans living along the coast who could be affected by storms …
