Archive for November 2016

By Elizabeth Blosfield A woman who spent more than seven years in prison for a $7 million insurance fraud and the unrelated death of a patient at her now-defunct Pennsylvania nursing home is in trouble with the law again. This time, the Allegheny … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

By Elizabeth Blosfield As Republican Donald Trump prepares to take over as president, Massachusetts is fashioning itself into a hub of resistance, with politicians and advocacy groups vowing to battle what they see as the extremes of a Trump agenda. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

The Connecticut Insurance Department has issued a online pay portal to process financial transactions for licensees that conduct business daily within the department, Insurance Commissioner Katharine L. Wade announced. The credit card portal will expedite transactions by processing producers’ letters … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

By Stephanie K. Jones The state of Missouri will pay $9 million to the family of an Iowa man who drowned after he fell out of a boat handcuffed and in an improperly secured life vest while he was in custody of a state … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

By Stephanie K. Jones St. Louis, Mo.-based O’Connor Insurance has hired Jacque Brandel as personal lines account manager and Laura Dobyns as commercial lines account manager. The agency also promoted Elizabeth Schurwan to assistant commercial lines manager. Brandel is a Certified Insurance Service Representative (CISR) … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

By Stephanie K. Jones Just over a year ago, the Arkansas Trucking Association named the first class of a brand new Arkansas Road Team: 12 drivers from six companies given the task of educating the public about safe driving around heavy-duty commercial vehicles. The … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

By Stephanie K. Jones The 2012 partial repeal of Michigan’s universal motorcycle helmet law resulted in less helmet use and more head injuries, according to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health. Researchers compared helmet use rates and motorcycle crash fatality … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

By Stephanie K. Jones Houston’s fire chief says investigators haven’t been able to determine what caused a blaze earlier this year that ignited a chemical warehouse, leading to explosions and hazardous runoff. The Houston Chronicle reports the city’s interim fire chief, Rodney West, has … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

By L.S. Howard China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. rallied behind Beijing’s recently imposed cyber security law on Thursday, following criticism of it from overseas technology rivals. The country’s two tech giants also urged closer cooperation between the public and … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal