The soaring resale value of construction equipment has resulted in an increasing number of thefts, putting business owners at risk more and more. With that in mind, The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has entered into a partnership with LoJack Corporation, …
Changes in climate will limit humans’ ability to manage wildland fire and apply prescribed fire across the landscape, according to the “San Diego Declaration on Climate Change and Fire Management,” a report by the Association for Fire Ecology, an assembly …
San Diego Superior Court Judge David Danielsen has ordered the owner of a San Diego area construction company to pay $475,563 in restitution to the State Compensation Insurance Fund as part of his sentence for committing workers’ compensation insurance premium …
Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado’s leading workers’ compensation insurer, has been recognized nationally by AARP as one of America’s “Best Employers for Workers Over 50” for the second consecutive year. Pinnacol is one of just 50 companies nationwide —and two in Colorado …
GAB Robins North America, Inc., a global risk management services firm, has named Kim Tranquilli to lead the company’s sales efforts in the New York City area. Tranquilli joins GAB Robins from Risk Enterprise Management, Ltd., where she served as …
Illinois consumers filed fewer complaints regarding their insurance companies and HMOs in 2005, according to consumer complaint statistics released recently by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Division of Insurance. Illinois HMOs experienced a decline in complaints …
Insurers seeking a competitive edge in diverse markets are in the final stages of designing a study that will test a wide array of traditional and non-traditional information. Chicago-based Urban Insurance Partners Institute (UIPI) is sponsoring the study, which will …
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale has pledged that the Mississippi Insurance Department will continue to dedicate itself to getting as many Hurricane Katrina claims paid as possible. Citing a report from the industry’s Insurance Information Institute that 94.3 percent of …
The family of a Boston woman killed when concrete ceiling tiles in a Big Dig highway tunnel fell on her car has filed a wrongful death suit against the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and nine companies involved in the $14.6 billion …
Despite some scattered power cuts and a lot of rain, Tropical Storm Ernesto has proved to be more of an inconvenience than a disaster for most Florida residents. Ernesto went from a tropical depression to the season’s first hurricane, and …