Monthly Archives: <span>April 2017</span>

Connecticut Bill Makes it A Crime to Distract Service Dogs

Service dogs may be tempting to pet, but a proposed Connecticut law would make it a crime to intentionally interfere with their duties. People who rely on guide and service dogs to help them cope with anything from blindness to …

American Airlines Flight Attendants Still Wary of New Uniforms

Beth Henry’s eyes sometimes itch and her throat begins to swell when she’s on an American Airlines plane, even if she’s not wearing a new uniform blamed by thousands of flight attendants for causing allergies. Henry and other flight attendants …

People News: Safety National, Navigators, Ohio Insurance Director

Timmel Joins Safety National as National Director of Cyber and Technology Safety National announced that Spencer Timmel, CIPP/US, CIPM, joined the company as national director of Cyber and Technology. In his new capacity with Safety National, Timmel will be responsible …

What Qualifies as an Insured Collapse?

Latest Case and Growing Trend Say it Must Fall Down or Cave in The scope of insurance coverage for collapse, first provided by the industry in 1954, has long been the subject of litigation in many jurisdictions. The arguments for …

Business News: Esurance, CoreLogic, QBE, AIG

Esurance Lays Off 30 Workers in South Dakota About 30 Esurance employees in Sioux Falls have lost their jobs as part of cuts within the insurance company. The Argus Leader reports that Esurance cut 100 jobs Tuesday, mostly in Sioux …

New York Central Park Blast Remains a Mystery 9 Months Later

New York Detective Paul Arroyo and Special Agent Peter D’Antonio are frustrated. For nearly nine months, the investigators have tried to find out how exactly a small, clear plastic bag full of readily available, highly explosive chemicals found its way …

Why Hoarding Impacts Claims

Adjusters who encounter hoarders on property claims can expect to have trouble in determining the cause of a covered loss as well as damages, said Jeff Taxier, education and training manager for American Technologies, Inc. Typically, a hoarder equals more …

Arrests Made in Fire That Collapsed Atlanta Highway Overpass

Three people were arrested Friday in connection with a raging fire that collapsed an elevated portion of Interstate 85 in Atlanta, Ga., and shut down the heavily traveled route through the heart of the city. Deputy Insurance Commissioner Jay Florence …

New Delaware Museum Exhibit Provides Insight into Art Fraud

A painting with problematic pigment. A Chanel suit dressed up with acetate trim instead of silk. A Stradivarius violin that, well, just doesn’t sound right. They’re all part of a new exhibit at Delaware’s Winterthur Museum that offers would-be sleuths …

Fraud News: Workers’ Comp Misclassification, Sandy Engineer Sentenced

Three California Residents Charged in Workers’ Comp Insurance Fraud Case A Riverside woman was arraigned Wednesday, March 29, 2017, on 52 felonies related to workers’ compensation insurance fraud that resulted in a loss of more than $540,000 to two insurance …