A former Bolivar County, Mississippi, sheriff’s deputy is scheduled for sentencing July 17 on an insurance fraud conviction. Attorney General Jim Hood’s office says 46-year-old Marvin Johnson, who is also a former Rosedale police officer, was found guilty of felony …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” of the United Arab Emirates-based Gulf Reinsurance Limited with stable outlooks. “The ratings reflect the company’s excellent projected risk-adjusted capitalization, good projected …
Two domestic property insurers no longer writing in the state — one by choice, the other forced– are the only two Florida insurers negatively affected thus far by a rating agency’s review of small domestic insurers. In a May 21 …
State environmental officials have announced a $34,187 fine against a chemical company for a toxic leak that caused and acid cloud that forced hundreds of western Pennsylvania residents to evacuate. Indspec Chemical Corp. already faces $121,500 in federal workplace safety …
Authorities say a man apparently taking a nap in a Northampton, Massachuetts rye field suffered head and shoulder injuries when he was struck by a tractor. Deputy Fire Chief Timothy McQueston tells The Daily Hampshire Gazette that firefighters and police …
The lawyer for an accused arsonist said to suffer from multiple personality disorder plans an insanity defense at her trial. Fifty-two-year-old Cheryl D. Potwin, of Sharon, is charged in a pair of 2006 fires _ one in Hartland, one in …
A 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that allows Oklahomans to store firearms in locked vehicles parked on company property will stand after the filing deadline passed for further legal appeals, Attorney General Drew Edmondson announced. Edmondson’s office, in partnership …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Delek Refining Ltd. in Tyler, Texas, with an alleged willful and 29 alleged serious violations after a fire and explosion claimed the lives of two workers and …
A lawsuit says neurosurgeons operated twice on a New York woman for brain and spinal cord problems she didn’t have. Kristy Pirozzolo is suing Long Island doctors Paolo Bolognese and Thomas Milhorat for $10 million. Pirozzolo says she now has …
Loss adjusting and claims management services provider GAB Robins North America Inc. has promoted Chicago-based Greg Giel to executive general adjuster, the highest adjusting level in the company. Giel joined GAB Robins in 1999 as an international claims specialist and …