Insurance Office of America has added Stephen P. Daniel to the Las Vegas, Nev., office as an employee benefits consultant. He was previously an employee benefits consultant with The Mahony Group. Daniel has also been an owner/agent for New York …
The owner of a downtown Las Vegas apartment building where six people died in the deadliest residential fire in city history has been hit with another lawsuit seeking damages. This time, several fire alarm manufacturers, sellers and monitoring companies were …
Year over year, all lines of property/casualty insurance business experienced an increase in average premium renewal rate, except workers’ compensation, which saw a premium decrease, according to the April results of the IVANS Index. Month over month, April premium renewal …
A retired lieutenant has settled a $2 million whistleblowers’ lawsuit against Michigan, the state police and her former supervisors. Twana Powell’s lawsuit was settled in April, the Detroit Free Press reported. Powell was both the first woman and first African …
Attorneys for the family of a Missouri nurse who died from COVID-19 filed a claim for death benefits under the state’s workers’ compensation laws. Celia Yap-Banago, 69, died April 21 after caring for a patient with COVID-19 at Research Medical …
Investigators are trying to determine how a man with apparently no security clearance ended up on a runway at a Texas airport where he was struck and killed by a landing commercial jet. Junin Ko, 22, died on May 7 …
Texas surplus lines premium during the month of April 2020 reached $741.68 million, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX). This is a 14.8% increase over the same period in 2019, SLTX reported. Additionally, through April, each …
The Oklahoma Senate has approved legislation giving liability relief to essential businesses and those working to safely reopen, as well as a measure protecting manufacturers and people who make or donate materials related to the COVID-19 pandemic. A previously passed …
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Wednesday announced the newest members of the Insurance Diversity Task Force, which makes recommendations to the commissioner on ways to increase diversity within the industry. Lara’s newest appointments include the first Hmong-American member, and …
New emergency rules adopted on Wednesday regarding temporary farmworker housing are designed to help increase worker safety and reduce the spread of COVID-19, those who created the rules say. The rules detail specific steps required at farms where temporary workers …