An Amtrak passenger train was going about 87 mph (140 kph) when it collided with a dump truck at a rural Missouri railway crossing, killing four people, an official with the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday. The speed limit …
Insurance technology vendor Vertafore reports that it has acquired MGA Systems, a provider of software for managing general agencies based in Melville, New York. Vertafore said the acquisition gives its customers access to policy administration and rating programs that will …
An Ohio aluminum vehicle parts manufacturer cited for safety and health violations after a worker in Ravenna suffered fatal injuries in March 2021, continues to put workers at risk. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found …
The second-biggest U.S. liquefied natural gas export facility hit by fire earlier this month will not be allowed to repair or restart operations until it addresses risks to public safety, a pipeline regulator said on Thursday. The June 8 blast …
Two workers were presumed dead after a trench they were digging for a sewer line in Texas on Tuesday collapsed and buried them, officials said. The workers were digging a 24-foot-deep (7-meter-deep) in new subdivision under development in Jarrell, about …
Several Alabama and Georgia laws that could indirectly affect property, liability and workers’ compensation insurance take effect today, July 1. Alabama House Bill 108 requires the state Elevator Safety Review Board to review, within 12 months of their publication, new …
It has been a few years. Policyholders may have forgotten about that last barbeque mishap in their backyard. Maybe the memory has gotten hazy about that one time their college roommate drove home when they should not have. Perhaps their …
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Verisk and Munich Re. A summary of these new hires follows here. Verisk Promotes Rayner to President of Specialty Business Solutions Verisk, the global data analytics provider, announced that Tim Rayner …
A commuter bus crash clipped a parked truck and flipped onto its side Monday morning near Los Angeles International Airport, injuring at least 20 people, three of them critically, authorities said. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation bus clipped a …
The Raleigh, North Carolina, Fire Department has ordered a wellness company to stop offering an oxygen-rich hyperbaric therapy treatment because of the fire risk. Officials with Restore Hyper Wellness tell the Raleigh News and Observer they are working with city …