Bluebook International Inc., a data and software services provider to the property and casualty industry, has launched it’s Insure-to-Value Web Service, a business to consumer application that provides property specific estimated replacement costs directly to property owners via its online …
Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. announced that Baltimore City Police Officer Eric Spilman pleaded guilty to felony insurance fraud. Spilman had been charged with making fraudulent statements to Progressive Insurance Company in support of an automobile insurance claim. …
Fireworks and celebrations go together, especially during the Fourth of July. But fireworks can be dangerous, causing serious burn and eye injuries. Michael Brown, Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response and head of the Federal Emergency …
Utah firefighters appear to have gained the upper-hand in their battle with a fire that spread over some 12,000 acres in the southwestern part of the state. Residents in a housing development were forced to evacuate earlier in the week …
The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission announced it has determined, pursuant to the authority and direction given under the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act, that any interest or discount provided for in the Act shall be at the rate of 6.88 percent. …
Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager announced that a Milwaukee County man has been convicted and sentenced in Milwaukee County Circuit Court for billing the state Medicaid program for transportation services he did not provide. Kevin D. Johnson, 40, pled guilty …
A former Shreveport, La., police officer escaped most of the federal charges lodged against him in a scheme to collect donations for a non-existent brain tumor his wife claimed to have. The Associated Press reported that Tony Larry and Tyna …
The Texas Department of Insurance announced it fined an Arlington company $150,000 for conducting the business of title insurance without authorization to do so. The fine against Ameristar Title and Errol V. Housmans represents the fourth largest penalty levied by …
To commemorate its silver anniversary, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is celebrating the more than 300,000 lives it has helped to save since its inception in 1980. In honor of the milestone, MADD and long-time supporter State Farm are introducing …
A coalition of carriers that insured Wisconsin’s paper manufacturers thought they had successfully defeated a legislative effort to force them to pick up the estimated $500 million tab to clean up the polluted Fox River. The insurers, along with several …