Due to the large volume of auto claims being filed following Monday’s hailstorm, the Mississippi Insurance Department has arranged for insurance companies to use the Mississippi State Fairgrounds, downtown, as additional damage inspection stations. These sites will be in addition …
Frasco Investigative Services, a national insurance investigation corporation, announced the opening of its new Midwest regional office. Centrally located in the Chicago area, the office is headed by Richard Cyr , regional manager, an industry veteran with over twenty years …
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said it’s premature for the state property insurer of last resort to borrow $100 million to help close a budget gap, according to a letter released March 19. Donelon’s assessment came after the board for …
Ed Graf was given life in prison 25 years ago for killing his two stepsons by locking them in a backyard shed and setting it on fire. Two investigators used photos of the shed’s remains to persuade jurors that Graf …
Changes are planned for Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race following the asphyxiation death of a dog that was buried in snow by extreme winds, organizers of the 1,000-mile (1,600-kilometer) race said Wednesday. Race officials said they also plan to …
Workers are dismantling a 65-foot-long dock from the Japanese tsunami that washed ashore on a remote beach on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. A spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Keeley Belva, said Tuesday they are making progress. The Peninsula …
Symbility Solutions Inc., a cloud-based claims technology provider, and Weather Fusion, a weather verification services provider for the insurance and construction industries, announced a partnership to bring forensic weather verification capabilities to the Symbility platform, allowing insurers the ability to …
Volkswagen AG announced a recall Wednesday of more than 384,000 vehicles in China to fix gearboxes following a report last week by state TV that criticized the quality of the German automaker’s cars. Volkswagen said that problems with direct-shift gearboxes …
An all-teen board appointed by Georgia’s governor wants harsher penalties for teens who violate the state’s law that bans drivers from texting and using smartphones while on the road. Members of the Governor’s Commission on Teen Driving on Monday presented …
A look at some of the biggest art thefts in recent times: _October 2012: Thieves broke into the Kunsthal art gallery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and stole seven works by artists, including Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Matisse, potentially worth hundreds …