West Virginia health officials says about 100 apartments at a complex in the town of Wheeling are infested with bedbugs. Ohio County Health Department sanitarian Chuck Fisher says Woda Group LLC of Westerville, Ohio, was cited in June for violations …
Calm and contrite, an accused arsonist diagnosed with multiple personality disorder entered “no contest” pleas Wednesday over a pair of fires — one of which she blamed on an alter ego named “Blackie Rage.” The case, which took nearly three …
Texas Mutual Insurance Company has announced a $179,324 dividend to the Social Services Agencies of Texas (SSA) workers’ compensation insurance purchasing group. The dividend is based largely on SSA’s commitment to preventing workplace accidents and helping injured employees return to …
Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Michigan were among the lowest of 14 states, largely the result of lower utilization and lower prices paid for some services, according to a new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). …
Las Vegas resident Steve Barfield has been sentenced for workers’ compensation insurance fraud, in a claim worth $241,667, with an additional $286,974 reserved for future payments, according to Nevada Attorney General Brian Kunzi and Employers insurance company. Barfield was sentenced …
House Democratic leaders may try for the second time in two days on Thursday to pass a sweeping reform of the U.S. food safety system that would step up federal inspection of foodmakers. The bill, drafted in response to recent …
The trustee winding down imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff’s former firm sued his wife Wednesday, seeking at least $44.8 million for investors bilked in Wall Street’s biggest investment fraud. Court-appointed trustee Irving Picard said in court papers that of that amount, …
Colorado insurance adjusters spent the morning surveying damage and answering phone calls from residents hit by storms that tore through the city of Pueblo late yesterday afternoon. Reports of golf ball-sized hail in Pueblo and tennis ball-sized hail southeast of …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-” of Bermuda-based International General Insurance Company Limited (IGI). Best also affirmed the ICR of “bbb-” of International General Insurance Holdings Limited …
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced July 28 it has cited Dehler Manufacturing Co. Inc. with 24 serious, four repeat and six other-than-serious violations of federal workplace health standards and has proposed $85,360 in …