6% The decrease in traffic fatalities on Tennessee’s roadways since 2004, the year after the state lowered the minimum blood-alcohol content to 0.08 percent for drunken driving offenses in 2003. A year later the state began allowing police officers to …
Privately owned insurance and risk management firm, McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P., has named Mike Rutledge a partner. Rutledge is a vice president in MHBT’s Fort Worth, Texas, office. Rutledge’s career in the insurance field spans 30 years. Prior to …
Tennessee’s Workers Compensation Penalty Program has collected close to $300,000 in penalties from insurance carriers and employers since it was created in 2004, officials said. In its first year, the program received 120 referrals resulting in 50 penalties totaling about …
A small earthquake along the New Madrid Fault shook two towns in far western Kentucky, but no injuries or damages were reported. The magnitude 2.9 quake, centered 3 miles northwest of Bardwell, was recorded at 5:47 p.m. CST last Wednesday, …
Indiana Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, announced today that it will host four free, day-long Safer Schools Seminars beginning February 19th at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Ken. Seminars will follow in Murfreesboro, Tenn. and Normal, Ill., before …
California Attorney General Jerry Brown has reached an $8 million, 30-state settlement with Bayer Corp. that will resolve an enforcement action initiated because of Bayer’s failure to adequately disclose safety risks associated with the use of Baycol, a drug used …
Washington’s Office of the Insurance Commissioner has ordered UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co. of Minneapolis to pay a $59,000 fine following an agency investigation into the company’s use of unapproved contracts to add chiropractors to its provider network. The agency ordered the …
More than 16 months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita forced an unprecedented exodus from the Louisiana Gulf Coast, tens of thousands of homeowners have decided not to rebuild or have yet to make up their minds, an Associated Press analysis …
Stockton, Calif.-based Western Maritime Insurance Services, a specialist in commercial and recreational marine wholesale insurance, announced today that it is expanding into 13 states for 2007 thru the newly formed entity. Those states will be Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, …
Property casualty insurers increasingly steered clear of the water out of fear of catastrophe losses during the past year. But while they were keeping a wary eye on the coasts in 2006, and escaped relatively unscathed in those areas thanks …
