The risk management firm Risk Toolbox, Inc. has launched a cloud-based service, CertTool, to assist businesses with the collection and management of Certificates of Insurance (COIs). Managing COIs is a complex, labor-intensive and often inaccurate process associated with high administrative …
A jury has found Jefferson Parish government negligent in the way it drafted and enacted a plan that evacuated drainage pump operators on the eve of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall but ruled the parish was not responsible for subsequent flooding and …
The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority has begun installing temporary reflective sticks on the Newport Pell Bridge as it awaits a report on whether to put in a permanent median barrier. The authority said the work began Thursday and …
The director of a group of financing companies warned Wednesday that lawmakers “would eliminate this industry from Indiana” should they approve a measure targeting companies that provide cash advances – sometimes at sky-high rates of return – to people awaiting …
The Grand Junction Fire Department is looking for a few good houses to burn. Department officials say they need people to donate houses to be burned down to give firefighters experience, but a lack of donations this year has become …
A top U.S. senator is vowing to pursue rules governing in-vehicle use of mobile phones and Internet-connected entertainment systems unless automakers and technology companies do more to reduce driver distractions. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, …
Harmony Gold Mining Co. stopped all operations for a day of safety checks as two workers died in accidents days after an underground fire killed at least eight. “The past two days have been tragic for Harmony, having lost our …
Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. auto and home insurer, gained the most since August 2012 after profit beat analysts’ estimates. Allstate advanced 5.7 percent to $52.36 at 4:02 p.m. in New York, the biggest jump in the 81-company …
Winter storms that brought heavy snowfall, freezing rain and Arctic air to the U.S. last month will probably cost more than $3.5 billion in economic losses, according to insurance broker Aon Plc. Insurers estimated losses of more than $1.4 billion …
VFM Services, a provider of insurance claims fraud screening techniques to UK insurers, launched it’s product, Conversation Management, in Canada. Its New ERA training program, accredited by the UK’s University of Portsmouth, delivers conversation management skills needed by investigators to …