Tallahassee Kaleidoscope “It’s like a kaleidoscope. You think you see (the solution) one minute and the next minute it’s different.” —Rep. Bill Proctor, a St. Augustine Republican, speaking on the state’s troubled property insurance marketplace. Proctor is again sponsoring legislation …
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has joined colleagues from two other states in opposing interstate health insurance options. Praeger, along with state insurance commissioners from Oklahoma and West Virginia, warned that interstate options could increase costs and destabilize local markets. …
Brick Street West Virginia-based BrickStreet Mutual Insurance has been approved to write workers’ compensation insurance in Illinois. The move continues an expansion drive for the company, which was approved to write workers’ compensation coverage in Kentucky last year. BrickStreet said …
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has set a March 15 deadline to start cracking down on the most common violations cited during fatal accidents. Inspectors also will look specifically to make operators obey 24 separate regulations as part …
Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C. were particularly battered by a weekend snowstorm that caused massive power outages and resulted in moderate structural damage to areas in the region. At least two deaths were reported, and now the insurance industry is …
ProBuilders The ProBuilders risk retention group offering general liability insurance for builders and contractors will stop accepting new business and not renew most of its 1,800 policies as of March 1. According to Bill Tepe, chief financial officer for NationsBuilder …
West Virginia may be on the path to helping municipalities pay for debris removal of abandoned buildings with insurance payments in a way that insurers can live with. The issue of how to pay for the cleanup has irked property …
Community Fixture “He’s sort of a fixture for our community. I wish there were more like him.” —Hal Reese, a Calhoun City insurance agent who’s known Mississippi Judge Henry Lackey since childhood. Outside Mississippi’s 3rd Judicial District, Henry Lackey is …
Three recent chemical leaks at a West Virginia DuPont plant, one of which killed a worker, don’t appear to be related, a federal investigator said. U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigator Johnnie Banks promised a thorough investigation into the leaks, which …
Federal safety officials are investigating a DuPont chemical plant Monday after a series of leaks that resulted in the death of one worker and the operation’s temporary shutdown. DuPont officials put the sprawling Belle plant in West Virginia on safety …
