Officials from the Alabama Emergency Management Agency (AEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that Disaster Recovery Centers will open in Saraland and Bay Minette on Thursday, July 14. These are the first of …
Midwest Insurance Companies has signed a licensing agreement with ISO for workers’ compensation data-reporting services. ISO will provide Midwest with premium and loss information, and unit statistical reports the insurer can file with designated statistical agents and state rating bureaus. …
A company with a nationwide network of specialist drycleaners has won one of the insurance industry’s biggest awards. The Certified Restoration Drycleaning Network (CRDN UK) was crowned Service Provider of the Year at the British Insurance Awards at the Royal …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A+ (Superior) and the issuer credit rating of “aa-” of Allianz Cornhill Insurance plc (ACI) (United Kingdom). The outlook for these ratings remains negative, which is in line with the …
Insurance agent Dorsey R. Ash of the Ash Insurance Agency Inc. in Bridgeport, W.V. has agreed to plead guilty to one count of embezzlement, a felony; and one count of conducting a fraudulent scheme, also a felony, according to an …
With tax and budget issues dominating the discourse, the 122nd Maine Legislature adjourned its active yet successful session last week, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI). “Insurers had a productive legislative session,” said Frank O’Brien, vice …
Wagenfeld Levine, a multi-state insurance defense practice, announced that attorney John McCollough has joined its St. Louis office as head of civil litigation and partner. A litigator with more than 18 years of experience, McCollough has focused on the defense …
Two Kern County, California farm labor contractors surrendered to authorities July 12 after a two-year investigation found that they had allegedly under-reported their business’ payroll by $1 million. The investigation began after a routine audit by State Compensation Insurance Fund …
Firefighters in southern Colorado appeared to be gaining the upper hand on a wildfire that sent some 5,000 people fleeing from their homes this week, as shifting winds worked in their favor Tuesday. The blaze in the Wet Mountains grew …
EQECAT Inc., an authority on extreme risk modeling, has released a new generation of WORLDCATenterpriseT, version 3.7, which includes model updates for U.S. Quake, U.S. Hurricane, and Belgium Quake modeling technology. In addition to model updates, EQECAT’s new version of …