Carol L. DiPietro has been appointed senior vice president of field operations of Meadowbrook/TPA Associates, a member of the Meadowbrook Insurance Group. She is based in the firm’s Andover, Mass. office. In this role, DiPietro is responsible for managing the …
The Delaware Senate this week approved legislation that allows insurance companies to continue using credit-based insurance scores while putting in place additional consumer safeguards. Senate Bill 31 as originally introduced would have banned insurers from using credit information to underwrite …
A West Virginia University professor who examined 21 years of NASCAR accident reports and made a comparison to introductions of safety requirements, has concluded that more safety regulations in the popular sport has led to an increase in accidents. In …
Ronald Mallay doesn’t deny that in the 1990s he tried to make money by investing in life insurance policies taken out on fellow Guyanese immigrants in Queens, some of them his relatives. His lawyer, Kenneth Kaplan, claims the practice of …
South Dakota and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will undertake a preliminary damage assessment in a dozen South Dakota counties affected by last weekend’s tornadoes and flooding. Not every home or business will be inspected. The state will use the …
Nature’s fury made life miserable from one end of the United States to the other, with people forced out of their homes by wildfires near both coasts and the Canadian border and by major flooding in the Midwest. And although …
Floodwaters continued to rise across northwest and central Missouri, inundating small towns like Bigelow and shutting down businesses from Chillicothe to Platte County. The National Weather Service said it expected parts of the Missouri, Platte and Grand rivers, along with …
One or more lightning strikes likely caused an electrical current in a cable left deep inside the Sago Mine and touched off the methane blast blamed for the deaths of 12 coal miners last year, the federal Mine Safety and …
The New Jersey Senate Commerce Committee heard testimony that insurers say could make it more difficult for consumers to choose the level and type of insurance they use. The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America urged the committee to oppose …
Mayfield Dairy Farms of Athens, Tenn. has announced the recall of 7,000 cartons of Turtle Tracks Ice Cream because of the accidental use of peanuts. A batch was mixed with chocolate-covered peanuts instead of pecans and because the cartons are …