November 15, 2010
Attorney General Tom Miller and ten other state attorneys general, have obtained judgments against the owners of a former Missouri company, barring them from ever again selling auto service contracts or engaging in telemarketing in Iowa and the other states. …
November 15, 2010
Frances Moore, of Moravian Falls,. N.C., an insurance agent and owner and operator of Fran Moore Allstate Agency, has been charged with 14 counts of insurance fraud, according to officials. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin and his criminal investigators allege that …
November 14, 2010
A new federal job safety study finds North and South Carolina among the country’s safest states in which to work. But some experts doubt whether the rates accurately reflect which states are safer. North Carolina’s rate of injuries or illnesses …
November 14, 2010
It’s a new day in several state houses in the Southeast, which has been red for years but went even redder as it got caught up in the Republican tide that swept the nation. Voters elected new Republican governors in …
November 14, 2010
$7 Million The amount North Carolina employers’ stand to save on workers’ compensation over what the industry requested under a settlement reached with the state. The settlement orders a 0.6 percent increase for voluntary market loss costs and 4.1 percent …
November 14, 2010
Republicans were not only victorious in the U.S. House but also in state houses across the country. The Nov. 2 election gave the GOP its largest number of seats in state legislatures since the Great Depression, according to the National …
November 14, 2010
Yes, You Can “They said, ‘Yes, we have that authority.’” —Elaine Skorich, an assistant attorney general in West Virginia praising a state Supreme Court ruling upholding the authority of West Virginia’s mine safety office to suspend coal miners. The decision …
November 11, 2010
Illinois Department of Insurance Director of Insurance Michael T. McRaith has issued the following disciplinary orders for September and October 2010: Shango D. Johnson, Chicago – Insurance producer license suspended effective Sept. 8, 2010. Johnson was licensed to sell life, …
November 8, 2010
RSI International Inc., a Texas-based managing general agency, announced that Robin James has joined its Commercial Underwriting Department in Arlington. James joins RSI after relocating to Texas from Goldsboro, N.C., where she spent the majority of her insurance career with …
November 8, 2010
A new federal study estimating the rate of workplace injuries last year finds North and South Carolina among the country’s safest in which to work. But some workplace safety experts doubt whether the rates accurately reflect which states are safer. …