The Workers’ Health and Safety division of the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission will present a one-day educational seminar on Safety Inspection and Accident Investigation on Aug. 24, 2005, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. The …
AIR Worldwide Corporation (AIR) announced the latest release of CATStation, its web-based catastrophe risk management system. CATStation now reportedly provides insurers the ability to better manage accumulations of risk at a highly localized level. CATStation also includes a number of …
Secondhand smoke imposes significant costs on nonsmokers and society, according to a recent Society of Actuaries (SOA) study that concluded the annual cost of excess medical care, mortality and morbidity from secondhand smoke exposure in the U.S. is approximately $10 …
Kansas members of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) are mobilizing opposition to a state program permitting drivers’ license renewals at local AAA offices. The Kansas Department of Revenue (KDR) recently announced plans to expand the pilot program, …
Patients face a significant risk for preventable adverse events and serious medical errors in hospital critical care units, according to a study sponsored by Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Researchers found that more than 20 …
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled recently that asbestos disease is an occupational disease under the terms of a workers’ compensation policy, and not an injury, thereby maintaining the integrity of workers’ comp insurance contracts under Louisiana law, …
Insurance regulators in Kentucky and Nebraska are investigating an Illinois-based insurance company for allegedly defrauding amusement industry operators in Kentucky and Nebraska. Richard A. Brooks & Associates Ltd., an insurance company operated by River Forest, Ill. resident Richard Brooks, allegedly …
As the deadly series of plane crashes continued – 4 since Aug. 2 – rescue workers continued to comb the wreckage of the West Caribbean MD-82 that went down yesterday in Venezuela, near the Colombian border. All 152 passengers and …
The United States Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) recently criticized the “assembly line” process used by some plaintiffs’ attorneys to screen plaintiffs for massive lawsuits targeting U.S. businesses, and introduced a host of legislative options to help clean up …
About one-third of approved reimbursements to New York local governments to repair April flooding damages have been enhanced with mitigation funds to make the repairs more disaster resistant, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Tuesday. “To date, we have …