As gasoline prices reach $4 a gallon throughout the nation, pain at the pump seems to have at least one silver lining for drivers and insurers. The rising cost of gas also drives a decline in all traffic accidents, including …
More than a quarter of large U.S. based businesses are experiencing disruptions to their supply chains or contingent business interruptions as a result of the March earthquake in Japan, says a new report. A new Greenwich Market Pulse study says …
A 67-year-old Plaquemine, La., insurance agent has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for mail fraud that cost several of his insurance clients nearly $1.4 million. U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson, of Baton Rouge, ordered …
Native Americans who reported sexual abuse at Jesuit-run schools are telling their stories to court-appointed reviewers as part of an effort to determine how to distribute a $166.1 million settlement reached with an order of Jesuit priests. Some of the …
Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has issued an order barring Ability Insurance Co. of Omaha, Neb., from writing new policies in the state for the next six months. The order takes effect in 10 days. The Office of the …
The same storm system that spawned tornadoes that killed hundreds in the South dumped more rain April 28 on parts of Indiana already bracing for floods and toppled trees onto cars along a busy highway. No injuries were reported. Troopers …
A suburban Chicago chiropractor has been sentenced to 70 months in prison after pleading guilty to health care fraud. Darwin Minnis admitted last year he and others working at his Maywood clinic submitted false claims to obtain payments from workers’ …
A CWCI Research Spotlight Report on the use of fentanyl – the most potent Schedule II opioid – in California workers’ comp finds that More than 1 out of every 5 injured workers in California who are prescribed Schedule II …
Water pushed beyond the banks of rivers in east Arkansas on April 27, flooding homes and flowing over fields where many farmers had already postponed planting because of an unlikely stretch of wet weather during a drought. On the two …
A federal judge ordered a Texas-based company accused of abusing and underpaying several mentally disabled men at a turkey plant in Iowa to pay $1.76 million to the former workers, the U.S. Labor Department said. The partial summary judgment was …