Guy Carpenter & Co., reinsurance specialist and a unit of Marsh McLennan, announced the launch of its Capital Advisory Group in Asia Pacific, with the appointments of Michael Owen and Hussain Ahmad to lead this new operation. The capital pressures …
Rockwood Programs Names Cole as Chief Marketing Officer Rockwood Programs Inc., a full-service managing general agency, has appointed Carol Cole to chief marketing officer. In this role, Cole is responsible for marketing employment practices liability, insurance agents errors and omissions, …
One of the most active natural gas exploration firms in Pennsylvania has agreed to pay $1.9 million after it disclosed in 2014 that its construction work had damaged waterways and wetlands, without proper permits, according to paperwork filed in federal …
A construction worker was killed when a trench collapsed on him while he was working in a residential development in the Hudson Valley community of Woodbury, New York, police said. The 43-year-old worker was digging in a 10-foot ditch when …
San Diego County has so far spent more than $4 million to settle a dozen lawsuits brought after a sheriff’s deputy admitted to on-duty misconduct with 16 women, a newspaper reported Sunday. The Union-Tribune cited documents that show lawyers for …
A suburban Seattle, Wash., school district this week agreed to pay $4.25 million to settle a lawsuit that accuses a former middle school teacher of sexually assaulting his student for nearly a decade. According to the lawsuit, drama teacher Richard …
Insurtechs focused on consumer management of insurance policies and commercial fleet analytics are expanding their reach following funding rounds. Also, a new platform for offering management liability insurance to small firms debuts with backing from Markel. Marble Digital insurance policy …
Aon announced it is closing operations and taking a global holiday on April 1st and April 2nd. These two days are intended to provide “colleagues extra time away to express appreciation for them during this unprecedented time,” said Aon in …
A company has been fined over $74,000 for improperly sending asbestos-tainted debris to a landfill in Southern Oregon. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality described the violations as “major magnitude violations,” but said the problems have since been “properly abated …
A woman has accused her former teacher of sexual abuse in a lawsuit filed against the Marysville School District. The lawsuit accuses longtime art teacher Kurt Hollstein of sexually abusing her around 1985, when the woman was about 14, The …