Monthly Archives: <span>May 2009</span>

Ohio Man Sentenced For Workers’ Compensation Fraud

A Mansfield, Ohio, man has been sentenced in the Richland County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty to fraud following an investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Special Investigations Department (SID). According to the BWC, Roger Roseberry …

Wisconsin Chemical Plant Explosions Force Evacuations

A chemical plant fire continued to burn May 12 in the south-central Wisconsin community of Columbus where dozens of neighbors were forced to evacuate their homes. A series of explosions was heard May 11 about 8 p.m. at Columbus Chemical …

Ex Arkansas Fed-Ex Driver Gets Jail Time for Wal-Mart Diamond Thefts

Investigators in northwest Arkansas were able to recover more than a quarter-million dollars’ worth of loose diamonds stolen from Wal-Mart after the suspect – on a jail telephone – reportedly told his girlfriend to hide the stones before police came. …

Four Californians Charged With 144 Felonies in Workers’ Comp Case

Four owners and managers of an Orange County, Calif., demolition company have been charged with 144 felony counts in what prosecutors are calling a multimillion-dollar workers’ compensation fraud case. Orange County prosecutors say the defendants at Democo Inc. claimed they …

Wisconsin Court Says Widow Can Sue in Asbestos Case

An appeals court in Wisconsin says the widow of a manufacturing worker can sue a company that supplied brake parts containing asbestos for causing his death. The District 1 Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit filed by Vicki Tatera of …

Best Affirms Transatlantic’s ‘A’ Ratings

A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength ratings of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of “a” of Transatlantic Holdings Inc. Group and its members, – Transatlantic Reinsurance Company (New York, NY) and Trans Re Zurich (Switzerland), along with …

Ratings: Allstate, Arrowhead, Nat’l. Lloyd’s/Summit, ISMIE Mutual, Greenville Casualty, Un. Farm Indiana

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its ‘A-‘ senior debt rating on Allstate Corp.’s (ALL) recently priced senior debt issue. S&P also affirmed its ‘A-‘ counterparty credit rating on ALL and its ‘AA-‘ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings …

Man Pleads Guilty to Burning Western Pennsylvania Ski Chalet

A South Carolina man must pay for a chalet he set on fire near a southwestern Pennsylvania ski resort in 1996. Forty-five-year-old Brian Ankney, who now lives in Swansea, S.C., pleaded guilty Monday to the fire near Seven Springs Mountain …

Massachusetts Man Charged with Starting Blaze

Authorities say a Hull, Massachusetts man intentionally started a blaze at the apartment building where he lived. Police tell The Patriot Ledger that 51-year-old John Goguen is charged with arson of a dwelling house and attempted murder. Goguen was sent …

Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Announces Bouker as Company President

San Diego, CA, 05/13/2009 – ARROWHEAD General Insurance Agency, Inc. announced that its board of directors has elected Steve Bouker as president of Arrowhead, effective May 1, 2009. Bouker joined Arrowhead in 2000 and currently serves as president of Arrowhead’s …