Archive for October 2015

World Insurance Associates LLC, an independent agency based in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, has hired Cathy Saporito as senior vice president, head of Personal Lines. Saporito joins World Insurance Associates from AIG, where she was senior business development manager for … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

A judge has ordered a Cheyenne, Wyo. restaurant to pay a Nebraska couple nearly $11.4 million after the husband contracted salmonella poisoning. The Casper Star-Tribune reported Christopher Gage and his wife, Heather, sued the Old Country Buffet and its operator … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Public health officials in California say at least 188 people in six counties have contracted a bacterial infection after eating at a San Francisco Bay Area restaurant. The Santa Clara County Public Health Department issued a warning to people who … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Arizona-based Lovitt & Touché has named Magdalena Osborn vice president and general counsel. Osborn will oversee the firm’s strategic and tactical legal activities, and assist with operational strategies and initiatives. Osborn was formerly with Rusing, Lopez & Lizardi. Lovitt & … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Commercial property/casualty insurance prices continued to decline moderately — an average of 3.1 percent— during the third quarter, according to a survey by The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers. The CIAB survey showed a continued decline in commercial P/C … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

The two-year budget deal produces savings from one of the most popular programs in farm country — federally subsidized crop insurance — and farm state lawmakers are furious. Senators and House members said Tuesday they weren’t notified of the cut … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Lyft is the first ridesharing company to offer trips to travelers at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. Lyft said it began offering airport rides Monday morning. The company’s smartphone app connects individuals in need of a ride with drivers … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Bracing for a tsunami like the one that devastated Japanese communities during a 2011 mega-earthquake, coastal communities from British Columbia to California have been grappling with how to protect people from a similar catastrophe. One of those towns is constructing … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

The U.S. Geological Survey reports that in the last two weeks more than 400 small earthquakes have hit a city east of San Francisco. KNTV reported that the city of San Ramon appears to have broken an earthquake record with … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal