Federal, state and local investigators announced recently the completion of the on-scene fire investigation of the Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ located at 724 New Lewisburg Highway in Columbia, Tennessee. The church has approximately 90 parishioners and was built nine …
Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, said that insured losses from Hurricane Katrina’s first landfall in the U.S. are likely to range from $1 to $2 billion, based on current …
Aon Corporation CEO Patrick G. Ryan today announced plans to sell a portion of his company stock over the next year. In a statement issued today, Ryan said: “During my 42 years as CEO, I have not sold any of …
General Casualty Cos. said today it expects to pay out about $5 million in losses on the nearly 60 claims that have been filed as a result of tornados last Thursday in southeastern Wisconsin. More than 30 of the claims …
Michael Brown, under secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response and head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Friday that FEMA has awarded 11 mitigation grants in Oklahoma through the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program (PDM) national competition. …
Five Tampa-area clinic owners have been arrested and a warrant issued for the arrest of a sixth owner for “selling” patients, most of whom were accident victims, to diagnostic facilities that then billed auto insurers thousands of dollars in claims. …
Dwight E. Smith and Roger P. Sugarman were recently elected to the board of directors of State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio. Smith is CEO of Sophisticated Systems, Inc., a software integration and consulting firm, and Sugarman is …
A Dorchester, Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to charges he received $36,446 in workers’ compensation benefits while continuing to work, Attorney General Tom Reilly announced. Thompson Huynh, 41, pleaded guilty to one count each of workers’ comp insurance fraud and …
New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that a Bayside Prison inmate has been sentenced to a concurrent four-year sentence after pleading guilty to insurance fraud for his role in submitting a phony $4,200 auto insurance Personal …
State Farm has mobilized claims adjusters to join Florida employees, agents and agents’ staff who are already assisting customers recovering from Hurricane Katrina. Members of State Farm’s Catastrophe Team are already en route to areas near the hurricane’s path. At …