An eastern Idaho woman is suing the federal government for an injury she sustained in 2011 when her all-terrain vehicle rolled down a hill located in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. Karleen Linford, of Inkom, filed a complaint Thursday seeking almost …
Vermont fire investigators say Lyndonville fire that destroyed a farmhouse and a nearby garage started because a pail of hot fireplace ashes was left too close to the house. The Jewell Hill Road house and adjacent garage with an upstairs …
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) appointed Jeremy Johnson as president & chief executive officer of Lexington Insurance Company, AIG’s Excess & Surplus (E&S) division based in Boston. He will report to Robert Schimek, president & chief executive officer of AIG …
CompWest Insurance Company, part of the Accident Fund Holdings family, recently partnered with Phoenix Risk Management Insurance Services to write workers’ compensation insurance for specific classes in the health care industry. The program targets California operations with an annual premium …
An Indianapolis police officer charged with causing a fatal 2010 crash while driving drunk was arrested again Saturday, records show. Marion County Jail records show David Bisard was booked on a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving Saturday afternoon, The Indianapolis …
Claims fraud is pervasive in insurance. Large or small, insurers have measures in place to detect and investigate fraudulent claims and mitigate losses. The sophistication of these fraud prevention operations vary across carriers and lines of business. They range from …
HailStrike, a provider of instant meteorological data that equips insurers, adjusters, roofing companies and other service industries whose customers are impacted by severe weather, announced two new products. Aniswath, a patent pending algorithm provides density, duration and direction of hail …
Three months after a truck splashed into the Missouri River during a police chase, no one wants to pay the cost of removing the sunken vehicle. The Sioux City Journal reports the situation is frustrating for riverfront landowner who has …
A research report released by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) provides specific recommendations for optimizing the rear seat of passenger vehicles to better protect its most common occupants — children and adolescents. By bringing technologies already protecting front seat …
The California law that eases prison overcrowding by shifting responsibility for thousands of lower-level felons to county jails has made it much harder for certain crime victims to collect restitution from inmates. The state’s 33 adult prisons have a seamless …