A former bookkeeper for a Rhode Island law firm has agreed to plead guilty to charges related to the embezzlement of nearly three-quarters of a million dollars from her employer, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Sarah Gaulin, 39, will plead guilty …
Kinsale Capital Group Inc. has hired Mark J. Beachy as executive vice president and chief claims officer, effective October 5, 2020. Beachy will succeed Ann Marie Marson, who served as chief claims officer since August 2009 and is retiring from …
The owner of a Louisiana cane sugar refinery said production has resumed after a fire late last month that hit two silos but caused no injuries. American Sugar Refining Inc. said in a Sept. 10 news release that Domino Sugar’s …
Preferred Mutual Insurance Company has hired Michelle Raue as senior vice president of claims. In this role, Raue will be responsible for building the vision and executing the strategy to deliver an innovative and differentiated claims experiences for the organization, …
The former office manager of the Iowa City Area Development Group was sentenced Friday to 27 months in prison for a 13-year theft scheme in which she misspent more than a half-million dollars, federal prosecutors said. Sheri Jelinek, 48, of …
Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Securitas Insurance Partners LLC, a specialty brokerage focused on the retail insurance and risk management needs of venture capital and private equity backed portfolio companies. Terms …
Oregon workplace and public health officials are urging employers to stop or delay outdoor work activity where they can and take other reasonable steps to protect workers when air quality reaches the “unhealthy” zone, or worse. Employers are responsible for …
Facebook Inc. launched legal action on Friday against Ireland’s Data Protection Commission in an attempt to halt a proposed order that could stop the company from transferring data from the European Union to the United States. The U.S. social media …
University of Nevada, Reno alumni and donors may have had their information stolen in a data breach that occurred in May, university officials said. The school was told of the breach on July 16 by Blackbaud, a third-party fundraising technology …
As critical fire weather conditions subsided, firefighters accomplished full containment on one of the many fires burning in the state, according to the latest report from CalFire. Roughly 14,000 firefighters remain on the line of 29 major wildfires burning across …