Looking at insurance loss trends can be quite baffling at times. Perhaps no more so than when trying to figure out why bodily injury severities continue to rise despite frequency declining at a time when the safest cars ever produced …
Lisa Roller returned to Tenn.-based Brentwood Services Administrators (BSA) as a claim representative in the general liability claim department, according to Jeff Pettus, president and chief executive officer of BSA. Roller began her career in claims while working for the …
The National Weather Service has confirmed a tornado hit two Wake County, N.C., towns. The weather service said Sunday that a tornado with winds of 80 mph touched down in Garner shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday. The storm caused some …
Mississippi lawmakers have extended trade-secret protections to universities and community colleges by exempting materials tied to any commercial, scientific or technical research from the state’s Open Records Act before the research is published. Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 116 …
A New Hampshire Senate panel is holding a hearing next week on a measure to ban the use of hand-held cellphones while driving. The House-passed bill also bans all cellphone use by minors behind the wheel. The bill doesn’t apply …
State officials have closed four pedestrian bridges in the Florida Keys because of safety concerns. The bridges are more than 100 years old and were once part of Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway. They no longer support vehicle traffic. …
Beverly Brignoni was a young New Yorker seeking a less expensive way to enhance her appearance and she did what many other people are now doing: travel to the Dominican Republic for cosmetic surgery. It went horribly wrong. The 28-year-old …
California’s most recent workers’ compensation reform began when Senate Bill 863 took effect on January 1, 2013. While the bill increased benefits for workers almost immediately, cost savings mechanisms outlined within the bill have yet to be realized, according to …
A proposal in the Louisiana state Legislature to reduce the maximum deductible on named storms and require winds in excess of 125 miles per hour before the deductible could be applied would likely result in higher insurance costs for consumers …
A St. Louis, Mo., jury has awarded $1.14 million to a former employee of the Missouri Department of Public Safety who accused the department of age discrimination. The St. Louis Circuit Court jury awarded $1.14 million on Thursday to Timothy …