The Excess Line Association of New York has approved Ironshore Insurance Ltd. as an eligible excess and surplus lines insurer in the Empire State. Ironshore – a Hamilton, Bermuda-based specialty insurer with roughly $1 billion in capital – said it …
The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 23rd, struck down a legal precedent that generally gave motorists more time to sue their insurance company for unpaid claims under some circumstances. The 4-3 ruling follows similar insurance-related decisions by the court …
A new pharmacy robot at Loyola University Hospital is designed to eliminate the type of life-threatening human medication errors that injured actor Dennis Quaid’s newborn twins. Loyola’s pharmacy recently began filling patient prescriptions with the two-armed, $1.5 million dollar robot. …
Two New England States lead the nation in terms of having the lowest rate of work-related deaths and most states in the Northeast rank well above the national average, according to a new report from a major labor group. New …
A wildfire that has scorched 270 acres and forced the evacuation of about 100 homes in neighborhoods near Pasadena might not be under control for days, officials said Sunday. Firefighters originally had hoped to have the blaze contained Sunday, but …
Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada’s largest city to prepare for a bigger event as the area continued rumbling Saturday after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long series of temblors. More than 100 aftershocks were recorded on the western edge …
Gov. Matt Blunt says Missouri is seeing the benefits of medical lawsuit reform legislation passed nearly three years ago. The Republican spoke on Thursday, April 24, 2008, at a news conference at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in suburban St. …
Mississippi’s Jackson State University will install metal detectors in two dormitories and ban visitors to both residential halls as part of new security measures. JSU spokesman Anthony Dean said April 24 that the school enacted the changes to enhance safety, …
A lawyer says State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. has settled a civil lawsuit with a Mississippi couple whose Biloxi home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Jack Denton, attorney for Norman and Genevieve Broussard, said the confidential settlement was reached …
The Supreme Court struggled last week with how much weight to give an insurance company’s potential conflict of interest when it denies an employee’s health or disability benefits claim. The lawyer representing the Ohio woman who sued MetLife Inc. over …