Texas experienced 49 fewer railroad accidents — the largest decrease of any state — in the first half of 2007 than it did during the same period in 2006. The decrease was part of a trend of continuing railroad safety …
Workers’ Comp, Security, Investigative Agencies Nuts & Bolts: A guaranteed cost workers’ compensation program for security guard and investigative agencies is available from The Mechanic Group. Dollars: Up to $1 million. Carrier: The Hartford rated “A+” XV by A.M. Best. …
Workers’ Comp, Security, Investigative Agencies Nuts & Bolts: A guaranteed cost workers’ compensation program for security guard and investigative agencies is available from The Mechanic Group. Dollars: Up to $1 million. Carrier: The Hartford rated “A+” XV by A.M. Best. …
Denver-based Van Gilder has formed a joint venture with EnRisk to provide risk counsel and insurance for the energy industry. The new company, vangilder | enrisk, will serve 16 states in the western region. Michael Van Gilder, Van Gilder CEO …
Alabama, California, Montana, Rhode Island and Washington will begin requiring insurance companies to file annual statement data as part of a growing effort to make market conduct exams more efficient that now includes 30 states. The 30 states require companies …
State highway officials around the country want the government to stop scaring the public by using dire-sounding phrases such as “structurally deficient” and “functionally obsolete” to describe bridges in need of repairs. In interviews and documents obtained by The Associated …
A Montana District Court jury has awarded a former BNSF Railway employee more than $1 million for a neck injury he suffered while working. Paul Roney, 61, of Shelby, said he sustained a severe neck injury on April 25, 2002, …
Schaumburg, Ill.-based the Society of Actuaries (SOA) recently announced that Cecil D. Bykerk was elected president of the Society of Actuaries for the 2008 – 2009 term. Bykerk will serve as president-elect during the association’s 2007 – 2008 year and …
A Florence, Mont., man serving a 10-year prison sentence for setting wildfires on federal lands last summer has pleaded guilty to two counts of arson for fires on state lands. Jonah Warr pleaded guilty Thursday in state District Court to …
The Montana Department of Labor says that 45 people were killed in the workplace last year. The agency says that number is down a bit from the previous year. The natural resource and mining industry was the most deadly, accounting …
