Jim Daues has been appointed senior vice president–Property Claims in the home office of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies. Daues joined Farmers in Sept. 4, 2000 as executive director–State Operations, after careers in the insurance field, electronics and household …
California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will sponsor a comprehensive accident investigation seminar in Oxnard, Calif., on April 18. The seminar, which is free to State Fund policyholders, is designed to show employers how to more thoroughly investigate accidents to reduce …
Recognizing that women and minority-law firms are underrepresented in the insurance industry, the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms announced it has launched a new initiative designed to enhance opportunities for minority and women-owned law firms to …
A man injured while working for a Sioux Falls landscaping company can get workers’ compensation benefits because the company failed to show the accident was caused by the man’s off-duty use of marijuana, the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled April …
A question that could shunt hundreds of Hurricane Katrina claims against hospitals away from court, putting them before a state malpractice panel, is up before the Louisiana Supreme Court. The justices heard arguments April 12 in a lawsuit brought by …
Collins, Einhorn, Farrell & Ulanoff, P.C. (CEF&U) of Southefield, Mich., announced that Allen J. Wall has joined the law firm as an associate, bringing nearly 35 years of specialized practice experience in the field of workers’ disability compensation. An expert …
Arkansas highway officials say they’ll waste no time in putting to use $56 million from the state’s surplus that legislators and Gov. Mike Beebe agreed should go to roads around the state. The money will be spent on repaving highways, …
A man who sued Allstate Insurance Co. after losing his home to Hurricane Katrina lashed out April 11 at the insurance industry’s position that damage from a hurricane’s storm surge is excluded from homeowner policies. “It’s a hurricane. It’s not …
The Department of Insurance Louisiana Health Care Commission will co-sponsor a free health insurance seminar for small business owners on April 25, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Baton Rouge Area Foundation Conference Center at 402 N. Fourth Street …
Industry trade group the Insurance Institute of Indiana reported that more than 95 percent of claims from the April 14, 2006, hail storm have been resolved, and complaints have been filed in less than one out of every 200 cases. …