April 4, 2017
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 …
April 4, 2017
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 …
April 4, 2017
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 …
April 4, 2017
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 …
April 4, 2017
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 …
April 4, 2017
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 …
April 3, 2017
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 …
April 3, 2017
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 …
April 3, 2017
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 …
April 3, 2017
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 …