The Reinsurance Association of America (RAA), a group of 22 U. S. property and casualty reinsurers, reported writing $12.2 billion of net premiums during the six-months ended June 30, 2007, a decrease of $7.5 million from the same period in …
Nine Iowans have died this year of injuries from motorcycle-deer collisions, setting a record for the state, according to transportation officials. Scott Falb, a driver safety specialist with the Iowa Department of Transportation, said eight people died in motorcycle-deer crashes …
Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) announced appointments to medical and chiropractic advisory committees that will assist the department in providing high-quality, safe and cost-effective treatments for injured workers. “The committees will help L&I continue to lead the way …
The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that in the effort to increase the security of confidential information in the workers’ compensation system it revised the majority of its forms to require only the last four digits …
Federal safety regulators have fined an electrical subcontractor $4,900 for an underground explosion that killed a worker in downtown Waterbury,Conn. earlier this year. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited American Electrical Testing Co. of Canton, Mass., for “serious” safety …
A special committee probing the Durham, N.C. Police Department’s handing of the Duke lacrosse rape case has stopped its work because the city’s liability insurance provider warned that findings could provide material for civil lawsuits. A statement released Monday by …
New York City ordered fire inspectors to examine hundreds of buildings under construction or demolition after an investigation found numerous planning and safety failures at an abandoned ground zero skyscraper where two firefighters died. Three senior fire officials said to …
Public and private property damage from recent flooding across seven southern Minnesota counties has topped $67 million. Gov. Tim Pawlenty provided the figure in a letter to state lawmakers. Fillmore, Winona, Houston, Steele, Olmsted and Wabasha counties have been declared …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ‘A-‘ long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Norway’s non-life insurer Vesta Forsikring A/S (Vesta) with a stable outlook. S&P then announced that the ratings were withdrawn, reflecting the conversion …
Swiss Re announced that a presentation at its second Nordic Risk & Insurance Summit (NORIS), “will show how winter storms Anatol, Gudrun and Per are harbingers of a more stormy future in Scandinavia, leading to a doubling of insurance claims …