About half the households in Plaquemines Parish, La., are using photocopied form letters to ask for grocery money without any documentation to back up their claims, says the administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund. Kenneth Feinberg said …
Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Sandy Praeger recently revoked the licenses of three Crawford County insurance agents and warned area citizens who may have been customers of the agents to check with their insurance companies regarding coverage. Praeger revoked the licenses …
Michigan’s workers’ compensation law blocks employee lawsuits against employers brought under federal anti-racketeering law, a federal judge has ruled. Federal Judge Paul D. Boren for the second time has dismissed a suit brought by a group of employees at Cassens …
A student is in custody following a series of fires inside a northeastern Pennsylvania dorm. Nineteen-year-old Ryan Burke was arrested hours after two fires broke out early Tuesday in the dorm on the campus of East Stroudsburg University. Burke was …
A Maryland couple has filed a $500,000 lawsuit over a bedbug infestation in an Ellicott City apartment. Orville and Rebecca Brown say they were forced to move out of their apartment and throw away most of their possessions, including all …
A Massachusetts woman admits that she and her husband intentionally ate glass particles, then submitted false insurance claims. Mary Evano pleaded guilty Tuesday to a 23-count indictment charging her with fraud, conspiracy and other offenses. The indictment alleged that between …
Following Hurricane Katrina, many insurance agents and brokers found themselves being sued by their customers when they realized that they were underinsured for their losses caused by the hurricane. It is fair to say that most of those claims involved …
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said his office is looking into a complaint that a retiree benefit adviser in the Pascagoula school system steered retirees to private plan she was selling. Chaney told The Mississippi Press that the complaints allege …
A North Carolina automobile repair shop owner and one of his customers have been arrested and charged with insurance fraud. State officials report that John Marvin Smith, III, of Robersonville, and Fronzie Griffin, of Williamston, have both been charged with …
Berkley Net Underwriters has named Matthew McCue director of business development for the Mid-Atlantic region. McCue will lead BerkleyNet’s efforts to expand its agency distribution in Connecticut, Virginia and Maryland. He succeeds Bruce Hayden, who has been named director of …
