The National Association of Insurance Women has recognized Heffernan Insurance Brokers’s Vice President of Claims Merideth Wieland with its 2010 Claims Professional of the Year award. This honor was presented by the National Association of Insurance Women-Region VIII, which supports …
Workers reported underground water leaks days before a flood coursed through a coal mine in northern China, where 153 people remained trapped Tuesday in potentially one of the country’s worst mining disasters, a worker and state media said. There has …
The General Assembly has passed a bill that would allow the Kentucky Department of Insurance to pay homeowners up to $300,000 for damage resulting from geologic shifts triggered by mining. The current limit allowed to be paid to homeowners from …
The El Nino warming the Pacific Ocean since June has peaked, but is expected to influence climate patterns worldwide up to mid-year before dying out, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said Tuesday. However, the United Nations agency said that forecasting …
A Manhattan federal judge dismissed a shareholder lawsuit accusing current and former American International Group Inc. executives and directors of ignoring “red flags,” leading to the insurer’s near collapse and about $180 billion of federal bailouts. U.S. District Judge Laura …
San Diego, CA, 03/31/10 – American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM), a leading national third party claims administrator, is pleased to announce that Bill Randall will lead ACM’s newly expanded Special Investigations Unit and Investigations Department. “Bill Randall will oversee a …
There’s no such thing as too much fire protection for a rural state such as Mississippi, says Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney. Chaney was among dozens of co-sponsors on a 1995 bill that created the Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program. …
A Louisiana court has rebuffed an insurance company’s use of the pollution exclusion and two other exclusions in an “all risk” homeowners insurance policy to deny claims resulting from so-called Chinese drywall. Specifically, the Civil District Court in New Orleans …
Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Lashantae Reeves of Houston on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The court sentenced Reeves to one year of deferred adjudication and ordered her to repay $21,000 in benefits to …
Workers’ compensation insurer, United Heartland, in New Berlin, Wis., has appointed Rick Bartelme as director of Loss Control. Bartelme is responsible for implementing United Heartland’s comprehensive approach to loss control, which involves customizing a results-based program to each company and …