In 2005, Texas recorded a 12.5 percent increase in work-related fatalities, according to the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC). A total of 495 fatal occupational injuries occurred last year, compared to 440 fatalities in 2004. There …
Louisiana’s The Road Home program achieved a critical milestone in the program’s initial phase with the registration of more than 100,000 homeowners, the governor’s office reported. This figure well surpasses The Road Home’s earlier estimates of registrants in Phase One. …
Former McAlester, Okla., City Manager Randy Green was sentenced to four years and three months in prison following his conviction on federal embezzlement charges that accused him of misapplying money from the city during a time when it was receiving …
Cincinnati-Ohio-based American Financial Group, Inc. today announced that it has reached an agreement to sell certain of its New York real estate assets. The sale is expected to close late in the third quarter or in the fourth quarter of …
Judy Dutruch has long questioned why her insurance company refused to send an engineer to investigate Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of her Diamondhead home on Aug. 29, 2005, before denying her claim. Batesville attorney Richard “Flip” Phillips, who seeks to represent …
USAA Casualty, which primarily insures military personnel and their families, has asked the state to increase its homeowner and condominium premiums by an average of 40 percent. The company made the request last Friday to the state Office of Insurance …
In a major step towards bringing electronic processing to the London market, Aon Limited (also known as Aon U.K.), the British division of Aon Corp., and Xchanging, the London-based business processing services company, have entered into a partnership arrangement with …
Authorities now put the death toll from Typhoon Saomai, which struck the southeastern coast of China last week, at 214. The storm, which came ashore near Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province on Thursday, Aug. 10, packed winds in excess of 200 …
The police chief in Elk River said an insurance violation was a good enough reason for his officers to lock up a man who was later beaten to death in the Sherburne County jail. A story in the Associated Press …
The Illinois State Insurance Department receives reports of six alleged cases of workers’ compensation insurance fraud each week, according to insurance Director Michael McRaith. McRaith commented recently on a stop in Bloomington, Ill. Some reports accuse employers of fraudulently denying …