State officials say damage claims for Montana crops due to hail are nearly double what they’ve been in recent years. The Billings Gazette reports the state Department of Agriculture’s Walt Anseth says farmers submitted 200 insurance claims from January to …
Officials say the cost of damage from a fire at the Grand River Dam Authority’s main generating facility in Chouteau, Okla., could reach $200 million. The Tulsa World reports that GRDA spokesman Justin Alberty says the July 1 fire’s total …
The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) posthumously honored Ron Lawson, former vice president at the Republic Group in Dallas, with the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award during the group’s 24th Annual ICT Mid-Year Property and Casualty Symposium in Austin. Lawson passed last …
Cincinnati Financial Corp. reported that The Cincinnati Insurance Companies’ property/casualty group expects its second-quarter results to include pretax catastrophe losses of approximately $160 million to $170 million. That loss amount represents an impact on the second-quarter 2016 combined ratio of …
The Oklahoma Department of Labor is warning businesses in that state that civil penalty amounts assessed by federal safety regulators for workplace safety violations are going up beginning Aug. 1. The Oklahoma DOL says Occupational Health and Safety Administration penalties …
Schaumburg, Ill.-based insurance brokerage, Assurance, Anthony Way to senior vice president, practice leader. Way has been a leader and mentor in the firm’s property/casualty division for six years. Way will oversee Assurance’s Public Entity and Education, Real Estate and Faith-Based …
Twenty-four workers laid off by Spirit AeroSystem in 2013 have sued the aircraft parts maker alleging it targeted older workers covered by its health insurance who had costly medical conditions. The former employees, members of the Society of Professional Engineering …
Chicago-based Mesirow Insurance Services (MIS), a division of Mesirow Financial, has joined Alliant Insurance Services’ middle market platform, Alliant Americas. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Founded in 1972, MIS is a full-service insurance brokerage and consultant specializing in …
A state judge has refused to dismiss the city-parish from a lawsuit by the mother of a 4-year-old Baton Rouge boy who drowned in an abandoned sewer hole near his home in 2014. The East Baton Rouge City-Parish government contends …
Unsafe working conditions have landed combined fines of more than $120,000 for two companies operating in the Texas oil and gas sector. Exterran Energy Solutions LP and South Texas Specialty Welders LLC were cited by federal safety regulators for violations at …