Louis Fondren, a Democrat from Gautier, and Barbara Dale Washer, the Reform Party candidate from Hattiesburg, seek to dislodge incumbent Mike Chaney as Mississippi insurance commissioner. Chaney, 67, a Republican from Vicksburg, served in the state Legislature before being elected …
An exemption that allows some daycare operators not to carry liability insurance coverage should be removed, a state lawmaker told a legislative panel. More than 1,500 home-based daycare operators and nearly 140 day care centers in the state don’t carry …
Modern health insurance policies and ERISA plans exclude coverage for experimental medical treatments. The question of what types of treatments qualify as experimental is problematic. Adjusting a claim for medical treatment which may be experimental can be a difficult exercise. …
A furnace installation company and its insurer have agreed to pay $5 million to the victims of a fatal home explosion in Sun Prairie. Twenty-six-year-old Andrew Manley died when the blast leveled a house and damaged several others in November. …
Oregon cornerback Cliff Harris was suspended Monday after he was pulled over for several infractions, including driving on a suspended license and driving without insurance. In a statement released by the school, Ducks coach Chip Kelly suspended Harris pending further …
The initial cleanup and stabilization of Vermont’s state office complex in Waterbury that was damaged by Tropical Storm Irene will cost $20 million to $25 million, officials said Monday. They expect insurance and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cover …
A former Tempe, Ariz., constable has been arrested for allegedly conspiring to burn down his home for insurance money. Tempe police said Monday they arrested 30-year-old Jonathan Harold Irwin Levenson Saturday night after a four month investigation. Levenson previously served …
Police, fire and insurance officials are presenting a reward of nearly $19,000 Monday to a Seattle, Wash., woman and her brother who provided information that helped convict a man in the Greenwood arson case. Nineteen fires set in Seattle’s Greenwood …
Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is retaining his elected post. Donelon, a Republican from Metairie, sailed to re-election Saturday. He defeated little-known Democrat Donald Hodge, who criticized Donelon for receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from insurance companies. …
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) has updated its terrorism model for the United States to reflect less frequent and lower-severity attacks based on a reassessment of the threat by a team of terrorism experts. The model is used …