New Jersey-based York Risk Services Group, a claims administration and risk management services provider, announced it has acquired the assets of American Claims Services Inc. (ACSI) based in Houston, Texas and Destrehan, La. Both John Bannon and Bill Johnson of …
Mass.-based Arbella Insurance Group announced the appointment of Joseph L. Salerno II as vice president of claims. Reporting to Arbella COO Janet Corcoran, Salerno will lead the entire claims organization and will be responsible for all functional areas of the …
Missouri lawmakers could clear up a legal thicket entangling communities’ red light cameras while also applying the brakes to cameras designed to nab speeders. Several recent court rulings have raised new concerns about red light cameras while complaints have arisen …
The National Hurricane Center has added one subtropical storm to last year’s tally of tropical weather. Forecasters said this week that as part of a routine review of data from the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, a short-lived low that developed …
Gov. Nikki Haley says this week’s ice and snow storm has devastated parts of South Carolina worse than a hurricane. The Republican governor said Friday her driving tour of downtown Aiken made her understand why the storm left 350,000 people …
The snow and ice dumped by an unusually severe winter storm were melting, once-frigid temperatures were rising and residents of South Carolina and Georgia finally had begun to relax. Then the earth shuddered. A small earthquake shook both states late …
British officials will hold their first meeting with insurers today on how they’ll deal with record floods that have so far caused an estimated 600 million pounds ($1 billion) in damage. Cabinet Office ministers Oliver Letwin and Jo Johnson are …
U.S. safety regulators have opened a probe into reduced brake effectiveness for an estimated 62,319 Mazda Motor Corp CX-9 large crossover vehicles from model years 2010 and 2011. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in documents filed online …
A new study finds that football helmets currently used on the field may do little to protect against hits to the side of the head, or rotational force, an often dangerous source of brain injury and encephalopathy. “Protection against concussion …
The Diocese of Scranton has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a 6-year-old boy who was hurt by a falling tombstone at an eastern Pennsylvania cemetery. A Luzerne County judge on Thursday approved a $225,000 settlement the diocese reached …