December 13, 2010
A U.S. judge in Virginia Monday declared a key part of President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare law unconstitutional in the first major setback on an issue that will likely end up at the Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson, …
December 10, 2010
The wholesale brokerage unit of Pat Ryan’s Ryan Specialty Group LLC, has acquired one of the nation’s largest executive and professional liability intermediary specialists. R-T Specialty LLC acquired Bloomfield, Conn.-based Oakbridge Insurance Services LLC, an insurance intermediary focused exclusively on …
December 8, 2010
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson sued Discover on Dec. 6, accusing one of the nation’s biggest credit card companies of billing tens of thousands of Minnesota customers for account protection programs they didn’t want. The lawsuit alleges that Discover Bank, …
December 5, 2010
Accidents in grain silos, storage bins and other facilities killed and injured a record number of workers through October this year, a study by Purdue University showed. The study showed 46 deaths and/or injuries so far in 2010, exceeding the …
December 3, 2010
Travelers is now offering control of well coverage on an admitted basis to upstream oil and gas clients. This coverage will be immediately available on an admitted basis in 25 states, and is expected to be available in most other …
December 1, 2010
A national study indicates Arkansas ranks second nationally in advancing its road safety laws during the past two years. The national scorecard produced by the Emergency Nurses Association noted Arkansas has passed laws requiring a tougher graduated driver’s license for …
November 30, 2010
ISU International announced that Superior Insurance Agency of St. Cloud, Minn., has joined the ISU Network. ISU Superior Insurance Agency is owned by Yussuf Hamid. The ISU Network, founded in 1979 and headquartered in San Francisco, consists of more than …
November 19, 2010
Saint Paul, MN – November 19, 2010. Christopher Gross Consulting, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Texas Department of Insurance is licensing the Cognalysis™ Reserving System, to assist with the Department’s analysis, as it pertains to financial solvency regulation …
November 18, 2010
Accidents in grain silos, storage bins and other facilities killed and injured a record number of workers through October this year, a study by Purdue University showed. The October study showed 46 deaths and injuries so far in 2010, exceeding …
November 18, 2010
Many states are making progress toward making roads safer, but Oregon and Washington do the best of promoting roadway safety with traffic laws, according to a new report by the Emergency Nurses Association. The report indicates that Minnesota, Arkansas, Louisiana …