Archive for April 2016

Millions of Californians live in places with dirty air, according to an annual report card issued this week that ranks two major urban areas in the state as the nation’s most polluted. Bakersfield tops the list for having the most unhealthy … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Advocates for medical marijuana in Montana have begun gathering signatures for an initiative that would ask voters to undo legislation limiting the use of the substance. But backers of I-182 have just nine weeks to collect the 24,175 valid signatures … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

The California Supreme Court has granted review to consider when and if evidence of industry custom and practice is admissible in a strict products liability action. In Kim v. Toyota Motor Corp. plaintiff William Jae sued Toyota for injuries Kim … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

A 1981 Ferrari GTSI that has been missing for 21 years has been recovered, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). The car, reported stolen in 1987 from Newport Beach, Calif. while on consignment at a dealership, was recovered … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

The maker of the assault rifle used in the 2012 massacre of more than two dozen students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School was ordered to allow its executives to be questioned ahead of a trial of a lawsuit … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Scientists say the Sierra’s eastern front is long overdue for a large earthquake along the California-Nevada line, where a magnitude-7 event expected on average every 30 years hasn’t occurred in six decades. Nevada Seismology Laboratory Director Graham Kent says the … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

USI Insurance Services has acquired Toledo, Ohio-based Brooks Insurance. Brooks employees will remain at their Toledo and Bowling Green locations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Brooks provides property/casualty, employee benefits, bonds and surety, homeowners, renters, automobile, watercraft and personal … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Markel International, the London-based specialist insurer and subsidiary of Markel Corp., has appointed Lida Heaven as an underwriter in its trade credit and political risk division. Heaven previously worked as a political risk and structured credit broker at Aon Risk Solutions. … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

The homeowners insurance line, not often thought of as a bastion of change, is actually quietly evolving beyond the traditional “one-size-fits-all” business. Some of the puzzle pieces that make up homeowners insurance are changing shape and new pieces that address … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal