Tropical Cyclone Phet roared toward the coast of Oman and was expected to make landfall late on Thursday at the earliest before barreling toward the oil-exporting Gulf Arab state’s LNG facilities. But Phet, a Category 4 storm with winds of …
The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be even more active than feared, leading U.S. forecasters said Wednesday as they predicted 10 hurricanes, five of them major, with a 76 percent likelihood that a major hurricane would hit the U.S. coastline. …
San Francisco-based Genstar Capital, LLC, a middle market private equity firm, announced the acquisition of Granite Global Solutions, a Canadian provider of risk mitigation services to insurance and corporate clients. Genstar focuses on investments in selected segments of the life …
San Diego, CA, 06/03/2010 – ARROWHEAD General Insurance Agency, Inc., a leading provider of top rated insurance programs, is pleased to announce it was a recipient of an Early Adopter ACORD Award. Presenting the award was the Association for Cooperative …
Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, under a second director since Craig Fugate left a year ago to run its federal counterpart, is getting a jump start on the hurricane season. With the storm season to begin Tuesday, the agency has …
California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced the arrest of Leticia James Coral, aka Letty James Diaz, 56, of Pacifica, Calif., on charges of fraudulently disbursing public money. The former San Francisco City and County Claims Examiner self-surrendered to San Francisco …
Residents of the northeast North Dakota town of Pembina are cleaning up after weekend flooding. Mayor Warren Hillukka estimates that at least 75 percent of the basements in the town of about 640 people were flooded after almost 7 inches …
A Jim Wells County (Texas) grand jury recently indicted Corpus Christi attorney Benito Garza, 48, and case runner Timothy Trevino aka “Sugar Bear”, 45, charging both defendants with one charge of barratry and solicitation of professional employment. The Texas Attorney …
A fire broke out in a Billings, Mont., power plant on May 31 and caused $100,000 in damage. Nobody was injured in the blaze that started in the evening at PPL Montana’s Corette plant. David Hoffman, PPL Montana’s director of …
A federal government decision to deny disaster aid for winter flood and snowstorm damage is being appealed by the state of Arizona. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the damage from the January storms wasn’t bad enough to merit its …