Trident Insurance Services LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of San Antonio-based Argonaut Group Inc., introduced an environmental impairment liability product for public entities, public schools and public and private water utilities, waster transfer facilities, and recycling centers. According to the …
A judge in Columbia, S.C. deciding whether to approve a nearly 33 percent increase in a workers’ compensation rates may be asked to reopen a case after opponents of the increase learned the Insurance Department didn’t disclose overcharges based on …
Mississippi has increased by 35 percent insurance values used in calculating homeowner grant amounts to compensate for higher post-Katrina construction costs. Scott Hamilton, spokesman for the Mississippi Development Authority, in Jackson, Miss. said the action came after officials realized the …
The Wisconsin insurance commissioner’s office and an office that regulates workers’ compensation approved new rules in secret and refused to turn over public records, The Employer Group Inc. alleges in a lawsuit alleges. The Employer Group Inc., a Madison staffing …
The Michigan Association of Insurance Agents is reminding everyone that extreme caution is needed over the 4th of July weekend with holiday fireworks. Almost 13,000 people were injured from fireworks in the U.S., with 8,500 people treated in hospital emergency …
New York-based USI Holdings Corporation said it would appeal a jury verdict against USI MidAtlantic, Inc., one of its subsidiaries, in a copyright infringement case that the winning publisher’s lawyers say is a landmark decision. A jury in the Federal …
The deluge of rain that caused flooding in the nation’s capital and elsewhere in the East forced the evacuation of more than 2,200 people near a rising lake on Wednesday and washed out part of a four-lane highway. At least …
Heavy rains caused flooding throughout eastern and central Pennsylvania, prompting evacuations and resulting in at least one death, as officials braced for the possibility of major inundations along cresting rivers. “We’re seeing flooding all over the eastern and central portions …
The Football League recently won token damages of 4 pounds (euro5.82; US$7.35) against the law firm that advised it on a disastrous television deal, but faces a bill for an estimated 5 million pounds (euro7.3 million US$9.2 million) in legal …
The federal flood insurance program, still reeling from historic losses from Hurricane Katrina, may get a helping hand from Congress. The House voted 416-4 Tuesday to phase out subsidies on some vacation homes and commercial property and raise premiums at …