The Alabama Senate is trying to increase the penalties for alcohol-related boating deaths to the same as deaths caused by drunken car drivers. The Senate voted 18-1 Thursday for a bill to equalize the penalties. The bill’s sponsor, Republican Sen. …
Miller Insurance Services LLP, a specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, operating internationally and at Lloyd’s, appointed experienced market figure Alvin Poon to head up its claims team in Asia. The company handles reinsurance, complex large commercial insurance business and programm …
Leonardo F. Marquez Garcia and Dayleann Marie Vallejo-Ruiz, of Miami and Orlando respectively, were arrested on charges of insurance fraud, according to an announcement by CFO Jeff Atwater. An investigation by the Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud …
Denver, Colo. (Feb. 4, 2014) – OnPoint Underwriting, one of the nation’s leading program managers for Sovereign Nations, announced Nancy Arky has been promoted to senior vice president underwriting. Arky joined OnPoint in the spring of 2012 and will continue …
Georgia would take the first steps to regulating the use of drones through legislation under consideration in the General Assembly. Republican Rep. Harry Geisinger, of Roswell, is the lead sponsor of a bill to provide for the lawful use of …
Cedar Falls, Iowa, police say they have arrested a local woman on suspicion of insurance fraud and filing a false police report. Police say 44-year-old Michaela Marie Kotz was charged this week in an arrest warrant. Investigators say that in …
The Bullhead City Fire Department is considering allowing advertising to be displayed on its vehicles. The Mohave Valley Daily News reports the Arizona fire officials are preparing to address the idea with the fire district’s governing board next month. Fire …
A South Florida doctor could get a maximum 350-year prison sentence for his conviction in an illegal prescription drug pill mill case. A Broward County jury this week found 54-year-old Dr. Thomas Rodenberg guilty of 14 charges, including racketeering, trafficking …
Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration says Maine’s auto and homeowners insurance rates are the lowest in New England and among the lowest in the country. The Maine Bureau of Insurance is pointing to recently released reports from the National Association …
Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Steve Buehrer visited St. Marys (Auglaize County) to present its mayor with a $30,000 check to purchase cot lifters for the city’s medic units through BWC’s Safety Intervention Grant Program. “These cots are …