Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings plc, has appointed of Ken Perry as vice president of the Human Capital Practice, Willis of Tennessee, effective immediately. Based in Knoxville, Perry will be responsible for business development within Willis’s …
CRC Insurance Services Inc., a wholesale insurance unit of BB&T Corporation’s principal subsidiary Branch Banking and Trust Company, announced an agreement to acquire Connecticut Underwriters Inc. in Middletown, Connecticut. Terms were not disclosed. Founded in 1964, Connecticut Underwriters is an …
As fire season ramps up, San Diego County, Calif. has unveiled a new online interactive map that allows residents to search out wildfire dangers in specific areas. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported he digital tool launched this week expands on existing …
Federal officials are suing Austin’s FEC, LLC and Austin Entertainment Center LP d/b/a Austin’s Park N Pizza, a Pflugerville, Texas-based amusement park, for violating federal law by firing an employee because of his intellectual disabilities after denying him a reasonable …
Markel Global Insurance, a division of Markel Corporation, has launched new product offerings and leadership for captive agents and securities broker-dealers coverage. The captive agents product covers the professional liability exposures of company-sponsored life and property and casualty insurance agents. …
The Ohio Insurance Institute (OII) reports that deer-vehicle crashes in the state decreased in 2014 by 2.5 percent over 2013. Nationally, however, claim costs from such collisions are up by more than 6 percent this year. According to the Ohio …
A San Francisco lawyer says he is bringing a racial discrimination lawsuit on behalf of a mostly black women’s book club whose members were ordered off a Napa Valley train tour. Civil rights lawyer Waukeen McCoy said the federal court …
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill to move California forward in curbing abuse of opioid medications in the workers’ compensation system. Assembly Bill 1124, authored by Assemblyman Henry T. Perea, D-Fresno, requires the Division of Workers Compensation to establish a …
In Iowa, one of the largest U.S. egg processors has started to buy foreign supplies for the first time. Elsewhere in the Midwest, a free-range egg producer says it may build automatic car washes to scour vehicles accessing its 60 …
A new federal report says 120 Louisiana workers died on the job last year — six more than in 2013. New Orleans City Business reports that the Bureau of Labor Statistics found the largest number of such deaths — 37 …