The filmmaking world is becoming riskier, according to the 2005 Risks in Global Filmmaking map published by Aon/Albert G. Ruben, an insurance broker for the entertainment industry. In addition to highlighting terrorism and political risks, the map placed high-risk ratings …
Legislation that would prohibit insurers’ use of credit information narrowly advanced out of the Colorado Senate State Affairs Committee Monday on a 4-3 vote and will be opposed by the insurance industry on the Senate floor, according to the Property …
A Hot Springs, Ark. construction company’s alleged failure to protect employees from trenching and excavation hazards has resulted in proposed penalties of $76,750 from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Heller Co. Inc., a water …
The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that the agency has approved $2,395,121.63 in federal disaster funds to reimburse the Alabama State Military Department for part of the cost of emergency protective measures in the aftermath …
Parker Drilling confirmed Tuesday that an employee of a third party sub-contractor, Southern Sandblasting and Coating of Dayton, Texas, has died from injuries sustained while working on Parker Drilling barge rig 72 in New Iberia, Louisiana. The individual, who was …
Gregg Leo Curwick, of Rancho Cucamonga, California, has been sentenced by the Kern County Superior Court for workers’ compensation insurance fraud after a joint investigation by the California Department of Insurance Fraud Division, the Kern County District Attorney, and the …
Department of Homeland Security Under Secretary Michael Brown is reminding Americans to be FloodSmart as the spring flooding season begins. The Department’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has teamed with its partners at the National Weather Service for the first-ever …
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, Rep. David Law (R-Commerce Township) and Rep. Roger Kahn, M.D. (R-Saginaw Township) have unveiled health care reform legislation designed to protect consumers from rising prescription drug prices, as well as to help the State curb …
BearingPoint Inc, a business consulting and systems integration firms, announced that the company was awarded a major contract from Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company to implement a new management system for insurance agents. BearingPoint will implement GlobeNet Technologies’ Firestorm Compensation solution …
A total of $4,299,257.21 in Individual and Households Program (IHIP) grants has been approved for disaster assistance in Ohio since the presidential declaration of Feb. 15, according to figures released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Ohio …