Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that former Findlay-area clinical counselor John Blain Frankenburg, 50, also known as Blain J. Frankenburg, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and five years probation for fraudulently billing Medical Mutual …
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak formed of a catastrophe response task force to coordinate efforts of the department and the industry in the aftermath of the recent winter storm. “This is the first time the department has joined with the …
A Butte, Mont., transportation company is suing the manufacturer of a bus it alleges wasn’t designed to sufficiently protect passengers during a 2007 rollover crash that killed a woman and injured 26 others. The Montana Standard reports Tucker Transportation and …
Icy road conditions triggered a 15-vehicle chain-reaction crash early on Feb. 3 in southeastern Louisiana as the state braced for a freezing winter blast, authorities said. State police reported a few minor injuries in the pileup just after 6 a.m. …
Texas Gov. Rick Perry reappointed Rod A. Bordelon Jr. of Austin as commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2013. Bordelon has served as commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at …
As Oklahomans continue to slowly dig out of 20 inches of snow, sleet and ice that shut down major interstates and forced the closure of airports, businesses and schools, law enforcement agencies are warning of the slog ahead, with roads …
A North Carolina woman has pleaded guilty to submitting false compensation claims and other offenses in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, Hurricane Katrina and a California wildfire, according to court documents. Charlotte Johnson of Fayetteville admitted to two …
The family of a Louisiana man killed in the August 2006 crash of a Comair regional jet in Lexington cannot pursue punitive damages from the airline after a federal judge found the company couldn’t be punished for what he called …
Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has sued Washington City Paper over a column he says defamed him and had anti-Semitic references. Snyder filed the lawsuit against the weekly paper and its parent company, Atalaya Capital management in New York State …
Mutual Insurance Co. announced that two National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) group discount programs earned a combined $908,586 in workers’ compensation dividends. Both dividends were based largely on each group’s overall loss ratio. The larger dividend — $693,148 — …