Reassured by jury’s unbiased decision Chicago, Illinois and Salt Lake City, Utah (January 27, 2010). Prime Insurance Syndicate, Inc. was successfully defended in a Hurricane Katrina lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. This …
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will receive a federal grant to establish an earthquake monitoring center. The $454,449 grant from the U.S. Department of Interior will establish the Arkansas Seismic Observatory to monitor earthquake activity in the central …
A man who worked for the Louisiana Oilfield Contractors Association has pleaded guilty to charges he fraudulently billed his employer for nearly $300,000 in expenses and used some of the money to purchase a health club. Thirty-six-year-old Edward Paul Verdin, …
The tiny northeast Missouri town of Silex will get an additional $1.5 million in federal aid to move flood-prone properties out of harm’s way. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the aid brings to $3.4 million the total amount allocated …
Property/casualty insurance provider, Zurich, has named Steve Gillen as global head of Marine Claims. Gillen will work closely with regional marine leadership and regional claims organizations to enhance Zurich’s claims proposition in support of the global marine specialty practice, and …
Water, wind and hail damage top the list of most common homeowner insurance claims in Texas, according to a review by Allstate Insurance Company of aggregated insurance carrier claims data. Allstate assessed data from 2000 – 2007 and found that …
A jury has ordered a medical device company to pay a Portland, Ore., man and his wife $4.75 million, finding I-Flow Corp. liable for damaged cartilage in Matthew Beale’s right shoulder. According to Beale’s lawsuit, I-Flow encouraged surgeons to use …
Although insurance carriers care deeply about the approval ratings from their policyholders, claims responses to claimant complaints are often stodgy, mistake-ridden, and vague. The following 10 brief tips will help you catch and correct problems before sending out these important …
The parents of two children whose aunt carried them onto a highway where all three were struck and killed, have sued a psychiatric hospital for allegedly failing to properly treat the woman’s mental illness. Ken and Danielle Lambert of Brentwood, …
A hospital that performed America’s first face transplant has told the family of a woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee a year ago that she is not a candidate for a face and hand transplant. Charla Nash’s family is …