Georgia will spend $10 million to add officers to the state law-enforcement division focused on watching and inspecting commercial trucks, Gov. Deal announced Thursday along a stretch of interstate where tractor-trailers recently caused a pair of crashes that killed 10 …
U.S. regulators have confirmed that an airbag made by Takata Corp. was involved in the April death of a woman in Louisiana, connecting the defective airbags to a seventh fatality. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it examined the …
When a Utica, Ill., neighborhood was recently hit by a large fire, a local restoration company responded quickly to restore multiple businesses. Dana Jennings, owner of Rainbow International of The Illinois Valley, said his team was called in as soon …
The state’s Insurance Division issued a statement this week advising Big Island residents that the Hawaii Property Insurance Association (HPIA) is now accepting all new business applications and coverage increase requests. “This is an opportunity to safeguard against unexpected property …
Storms moving through multiple states at the end of May including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas, have resulted in more than 9,000 claims already filed across multiple states for Farmers Insurance. Since the storms struck, Farmers Insurance specialized catastrophe adjusters …
A new white paper demonstrates the value nurse case management adds to workers’ compensation claims resolution. Using injury data, patient characteristics, diagnosis, medical treatment and claimant behavior characteristics to evaluate 42,000 claims, Helmsman Management Services, a subsidiary of Liberty Mutual …
Due to the tremendous publicity and new information regarding the impact of a cyber attack, organizations have placed greater emphasis on developing risk management strategies to proactively address these exposures. The Risk Management Society (RIMS), conducted its first Cyber Survey …
Between 1993 and 2012, the incidence rate of acute traumatic spinal cord injury remained relatively stable in the U.S., although there was an increase among older adults, mostly associated with an increase in falls, according to a study in the …
Last week, Zurich Insurance launched a new pre-emergency response team to assist business owners in dealing with last minute risk assessment and quick fixes two to four days prior to the arrival of an impending hurricane. Bringing in on site …
The number of vehicles on U.S. roads with potentially defective Takata airbags appears to be less than half the 34 million initially estimated by federal regulators, according to a Reuters analysis of recall records submitted to the watchdog and confirmed …