New York should increase its workers’ compensation benefits and try to deliver benefits in a less adversarial process, according to the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. The association made its recommendations in a recent policy statement after …
Massachusetts would phase-in competitive rating of private passenger auto insurance over a five year period utilizing “flex band” rating while retaining certain subsidies and restricting how high liability rates can rise in any one year under a new proposal introduced …
South Carolina, Tennessee and Kansas have joined a growing number of states that have enacted laws that require plaintiffs to meet specific medical criteria in order to bring or pursue an asbestos- or silica-related lawsuit, according to a statement issued …
Unitrin parent pioneered specialty insurance for WWII veterans DALLAS, TEXAS- April 20, 2006 — Between 1946 and 1964, over 75 million Americans, who collectively became known as the baby boomers, were born. The first group of the baby boom generation …
A jury in Denver awarded $101,500 to a woman who gave birth to a premature baby following a car accident, rejecting arguments by an insurance company that the baby, who lived just over an hour, wasn’t legally a person. Shantal …
Allstate Insurance Co. says it is dropping earthquake insurance to most of its 407,000 quake customers nationwide as a part of a larger move to reduce exposure to catastrophic losses. Allstate Spokesman Mike Siemienas in Chicago said four states require …
The rural Stanislaus County community that’s grabbed unwanted headlines as home of convicted killer Scott Peterson and former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit now has another unflattering distinction: The nation’s car theft capital for the third year in a row. Modesto …
Look out across the rooftops of New Orleans and you can see splashes of bright blue everywhere. Nine months after Katrina, blue tarps still cover countless damaged houses, and homeowners are racing to fix their roofs before the summer rains …
On June 1, 2006 the Maryland Court of Appeals issued its decision in Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. v. Zelinski, declaring that an insurance company “named driver exclusion” applies to a commercial automobile policy. “Insurers operating and writing business in Maryland …
Integro has announced the establishment of a new Southeast Marine Practice in Atlanta headed by Timothy I. Rea, with Paula Hoots, associate and Erinn Donley, specialist. Rea has 28 years of experience in Marine brokerage with a specialty in cargo. …