The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) unveiled a plan that establishes a set of five-year national prevention targets to reduce and possibly eliminate health care-associated infections (HAIs). Health care-associated infections are infections that patients acquire while undergoing …
Insurance claims services firm Cunningham Lindsey U.S. Inc. has appointed Jon McCreath as president of its Vale Training Solutions subsidiary. McCreath assumes this leadership post subsequent to the retirement of Steve LeClaire who has guided Vale for more than two …
Belron U.S., a national vehicle glass repair and replacement company, has completed the acquisition of Cindy Rowe Auto Glass of Pennsylvania. The acquisition was announced in August 2008 and the deal closed Dec. 31. Founded in 1980 by registered nurse …
Columbus-Ohio based national risk management and claims services provider Avizent has named John D’Alusio senior vice president and senior claims officer, overseeing the company’s technical and operations divisions. D’Alusio has 30 years of experience as an insurance businessman with executive …
The Insurance Fraud Investigation Unit of the Hawaii State Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs experienced a 61 percent increase in criminal convictions for motor vehicle insurance fraud in 2008 over the previous year, according to the DCCA. Fraud Unit …
Oregon nurseries say winter storms have done a number on some greenhouses, and the damage to plants won’t be known fully until spring. The Oregon Association of Nurseries said it is surveying members so it can give loss estimates to …
A coal company has been ordered to pay full benefits to the family of one of the six miners killed in the 2007 collapse of the Crandall Canyon mine. An administrative judge for the Utah Labor Commission ordered Genwal Resources …
Mississippi officials want to improve emergency traffic flow from Louisiana in Pearl River County and Poplarville, where evacuation traffic from Hurricane Gustav created congestion and confusion. The current contraflow process sends traffic from Louisiana into Pearl River County, just south …
2008 can be described as a year like no other in the property/casualty insurance world. This year we saw the near death of the world’s largest and most successful insurance company, AIG. The soft market continued to hamper revenues in …
Some Colorado residents spent the New Year making repairs and calling their insurance companies after strong winds pounded the Front Range, Colorado Springs, the Eastern Plains and Southern Wyoming on Dec. 30, 2008. A collision of a high and a …