The Professional Insurance Agents of Florida has issued a member alert about Southern Family Insurance, a subsidiary of Poe Financial Group and its subsidiaries, Atlantic Preferred and Florida Preferred. “It’s hard to imagine good news when we’re reporting that an …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its ‘A’ long-term junior subordinated debt rating to the proposed perpetual, subordinated, fixed-rate, step-up euro-denominated notes to be issued by conduit structure ELM B.V. and secured over the perpetual subordinated …
A.M. Best Co. announced that it has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of “A+” (Superior) and the issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa-“of the reinsurance operating subsidiaries of the Bermuda-based Everest Re Group Limited. Best also affirmed the ICRs …
Public employers can retain valuable staff, attract new talent and help employees fund retirement by encouraging a shift from a “benefits” mentality to a “partnership” mentality. That’s the message Joe Chang from Minnesota Life Group Insurance will share on May …
Massachusetts health officials trying to resolve a decades-old mystery about a cluster of cancer cases in Ashland have concluded that the illnesses are linked to a former textile dye-making plant with waste ponds that some children used as swimming holes. …
The Arizona House reversed itself and approved Senate-passed legislation to make it harder to win medical malpractice lawsuits over emergency health care. The House had previously watered down an earlier version of the legislation. But members voted 37-20 on Wednesday …
The United States’ disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded. Crippled by years of poor leadership and inadequate funding, the Federal …
A Massachusetts jury found a Lawrence lawyer guilty of auto insurance fraud in a scheme that prosecutors say involved staged accidents and phony victims. A jury in Salem Superior Court jury deliberated for two days before convicting Charles Lonardo, 45, …
Lawyers for a California woman who was spanked in front of her co-workers as part of what her employer said was a camaraderie-building exercise asked a jury this week for at least $1.2 million for the humiliation she claimed to …
The American Academy of Actuaries, in response to questions posed by the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, has submitted its terrorism risk insurance analysis, which concludes that a national framework for terrorism risk is necessary if terrorism coverage is …