Maine Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa is highlighting a new Maine law, the Transportation Network Company Insurance Act, emphasizing that it will help to protect passengers, pedestrians and other motorists from losses in accidents involving Transportation Network Company (TNC) drivers. The …
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Former risk manager Jack Campbell has filed a federal age and race discrimination complaint against the city of Reno. The Reno Gazette-Journal reported that the existence of the complaint filed in June and a previous investigation into issues concerning Campbell …
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A series of explosions rocked an oil field chemical supply company north of Houston on Aug. 14, setting off a fire that sent a broad, dense column of thick, black smoke towering into the otherwise blue skies. DrillChem said no …
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Wells Fargo & Co may divest its crop insurance business, one of the biggest in the United States, a spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday, as regulatory restrictions on U.S. banks force some to reconsider underwriting insurance policies. Wells Fargo has …
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California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed Assembly Bill 553, which establishes new oversight aimed at reducing the number of insurance company insolvencies. AB 553 was authored by Assemblyman Tom Daly, D-Anaheim, and was sponsored by Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and …
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Managing general agency Johnson & Johnson, Inc. (J&J) has acquired John Handel & Associates, Inc. (JHA), located in St. Petersburg, Fla. Under its new ownership, JHA will continue to offer the same products and services throughout the state of Florida, …
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Alfred W. Bottalico, former deputy commissioner for the financial surveillance branch of the California Department of Insurance, has joined Locke Lord LLP’s global regulatory and transactional insurance practice group in Los Angeles, Calif. as an insurance specialist. Bottalico has 38 …
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Erie, Pennsylvania, has had some tragic days, but Aug. 3, 1915, ranks at the top. At 8:45 p.m. that Tuesday, a wall of water tore through the city at 25 mph, lifting houses from their foundations, ripping pavement from streets …
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A former deputy superintendent for the Twin Rivers Unified School District in Northern California will receive $300,000, settling a lawsuit she filed against district officials after she was fired in 2012. The Sacramento Bee reported the school district, its former …
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“Things got a bit messy in the second quarter.” That’s how David Long, chairman and CEO of Liberty Mutual Holding Co., summarized his firm’s second quarter results, which saw a 36 percent decline in consolidated net income to $249 million, …
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