Arkansas officials have asked for more time to implement post-Sept. 11 rules for new driver’s licenses. States face a May 11 deadline to comply with the REAL ID regulations, but Arkansas has requested a waiver. “Due to the delay in …
Some Tennessee restaurant owners are concerned that a small, unrated insurance company with ties to the state has been chosen to take over a worker’s compensation fund. Already liable for a $4.8 million fund that the state says was mismanaged, …
Traffic deaths in Tennessee fell by about 9 percent in 2007, to the lowest level in 15 years. Kendell Poole, director of the Governor’s Highway Safety Office, says preliminary figures show the state recorded 1,169 traffic deaths last year – …
Cardella Cummings’ car wreck left her dizzy and confused. Her insurance paid for the damage, but not because the accident was her fault. “I thought you had to have insurance because it’s the law,” the 54-year-old Chattanooga resident said of …
Restaurant owners across Tennessee may have to pay thousands each to shore up a workers’ compensation fund that the state says was mismanaged. The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance is suing Ronnie Hart, the president and chief executive of …
Thirty years after the enactment of the nation’s first child safety seat law, a new survey shows parents strongly support child safety seats and child seat laws. Yet nearly 100 children under age five die every year in crashes they …
Peoria, Ill.-based RLI added Mike Robinson as southeast regional manager for its Executive Products Group at the company’s newly established Alpharetta, Ga. office. Robinson will be responsible for the management of EPG’s Financial Products Policies including, but not limited to, …
Austin, Texas-based The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research announced it has added a new course for insurance professionals: Employee Benefits – Health Insurance. The course aims to deliver specific, comprehensive information to those involved in employee benefits/health insurance …
Former eight-term Insurance Commissioner of Mississippi, George Dale, joined Adams and Reese LLP as a Senior Governmental Affairs Advisor (non-lawyer) and a member of the Governmental Relations. Adams and Reese Managing Partner, Charles “Chuck” P. Adams Jr., said Dale’s accomplishments, …
A.M. Best Co. indicated that the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a” of Verlan Fire Insurance Company of Silver Spring, MD, are unchanged following the recently announced definitive agreement by The Hanover …
