Willis Group Holdings has released a summation of its presentation on terrorism insurance at the General Arab Insurance Federation (GAIF) conference in Bahrain. The global broker notes: “Despite a number of recent terrorist attacks occurring on Middle East and North …
The Idaho Department of Insurance is warning homeowners about the potential risk of heavy spring flooding, with accompanying property damage, resulting from the heavy snowfall that areas of the state have already received this winter. The department noted that sudden …
A former Pa. medical student who fell through a manhole and suffered career-ending injuries will receive $18 million after a Philadelphia jury trial. Thirty-year-old Marcus Gustafsson of Philadelphia fell about 20 feet through the open manhole in 2004. Lawyer Matthew …
Former Pa. Superior Court Judge Michael Joyce wants his federal insurance fraud trial moved out of Erie to U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh. Joyce’s attorney says news coverage of the case has generated enormous prejudice toward the defendant and spawned …
Rhode Island lawmakers are proposing a system to investigate and track medical mistakes and so-called “near misses” after brain surgeons at Rhode Island Hospital operated on the wrong side of patients’ heads last year on three separate occasions. Bills introduced …
An 87-year-old woman died Monday in a New York home fire, and a firefighters’ union official criticized the fire department for initially dispatching only one truck to the building after the alarm sounded. Two firefighters suffered minor injures tackling the …
The widow of a Connecticut Superior Court judge cannot pursue a lawsuit claiming the state worked her husband to death, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled. The high court struck down a special act of the legislature, passed in 1994, that …
Giant chunks of manmade space junk — like the dead satellite that the U.S. government recently shot down — regularly fall to Earth. Yet no one has ever been reported hurt by them. Chunks of debris weighing two tons or …
New York (Feb. 27, 2008) – Mystic Capital Advisors Group, LLC is thrilled to announce the addition of insurance industry dynamo Barry J. Gilway to its investment banking group. The former Zurich executive brings more than 37 years of insurance …
The Association of California Insurance Companies, the American Insurance Association and the Personal Insurance Federation of California have announced their opposition to California Senate Bill 1167, a bill that the groups say would deny consumers vital information about longer guarantees …