Records show more than $1.1 billion of the more than $4.7 billion in flood recovery money awarded to state and local governments remains unused five years after the largest natural disaster in Iowa history. The Des Moines Register reported the …
A dozen faculty members from universities in Indonesia are spending the summer at the University of Hawaii to learn about disaster risk management and how it can save lives in their country. Under a pilot program, the 12 Indonesian university …
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak issued a bulletin to Oklahoma-licensed public adjusters advising them not to charge customers more than 10 percent of the total claim settlement. “Oklahoma storm victims need alternatives and assistance, but they also need to …
San Diego, CA, 06/18/13 – American Claims Management Inc. (ACM), a national third party administrator (TPA), is pleased to announce that it has been appointed as the TPA for a new residential earthquake claim program for QBE Insurance Corporation. This …
About 85 percent of 276 oil and gas well sites inspected in southeastern New Mexico over the past six weeks have failed to pass after-the-fact electrical safety inspections. Correction notices were issued to those sites that received a “failed” grade. …
Florida Gov. Rick Scott – and other top state officials – quickly distanced themselves last month from a controversial deal approved by Citizens Property Insurance Corp. to shift thousands of homeowner policies to a start-up insurance company. But emails show …
Xuber, the insurance software business of Xchanging plc, appointed three new senior members to its U.S. team in the roles of product development, product implementation and sales. Christopher Grey joins Xuber as lead business architect, with responsibility for designing user-focused …
The newest crime-fighting tool in Camden, N.J., lifts an observation post some 35 feet into the air, letting police scan a wide area with cameras, thermal-imaging equipment and other forms of surveillance technology. But the legal outlook from Sky Patrol …
Sandra Mayfield and Charles Simon have been appointed assistant vice presidents of Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. Mayfield was named assistant vice president of accounting and Simon was named assistant vice president of information technology services. Before joining the company, she …
A Maine man who was told he had only months to live because of an aggressive Stage 4 pancreatic cancer is still alive more than four years later. And a jury has awarded him $200,000 for the doctor’s misdiagnosis. It …