Cincinnatti, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group hired John W. Tholen as vice president of reinsurance. Tholen will lead the reinsurance function for the company’s Property & Casualty operations. His responsibilities encompass a broad array of activities, including purchasing corporate catastrophe …
Oklahoma’s Emergency Price Stabilization Act is now in effect for 12 Oklahoma counties after Gov. Mary Fallin declared a state of emergency due to tornadoes, severe storms, straight line winds and flooding that began Friday. The counties included in the …
Cellphone thefts are rising in downtown Los Angeles. Police Lt. Paul Vernon says 54 cellphones have been reported stolen in the Skid Row area in the first three months of 2012. That compares with 115 during all of 2011. The …
Authorities say a restaurant fire that killed a west Tennessee fire chief, who died after pushing firefighters out of the way of a collapsing fire roof, was caused by arson. Decatur County District Attorney General Hansel McCadams vowed at a …
A 64-year-old man from Odessa, Texas, faces a minimum of five and up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a federal arson charge in connection with a series of unexplained fires in the Permian Basin last …
A fire has heavily damaged a bank office and destroyed an adjoining insurance office in the northern Iowa city of Titonka. Firetrucks were dispatched just before 3 a.m. Sunday to the TSB Bank office. Fire Chief David Trunkhill says the …
Hamilton County, Tenn., is preparing to take a series of aerial photos to update its maps after tornado damage altered several neighborhoods. Geographic Information Systems manager Greg Butler told The Chattanooga Times Free Press that the county’s website is used …
A bill that would allow cities to place traffic cameras at busy intersections and record drivers who run red lights has passed another hurdle in the state legislature. Members of the General Assembly’s Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee voted 31 …
Transylvania County officials say no injuries were reported after a fire started in the boiler room of a hospital in Brevard, N.C. Witnesses said they heard explosions late Sunday night at the Transylvania Regional Hospital. Officials say the building with …
In the wake of more than 100 tornadoes ripping through the Plains states this past weekend, the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association (RMIIA), a non-profit consumer information organization that represents property & casualty insurers in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and …