Monthly Archives: <span>September 2016</span>

New Mexico Insurance Regulator Wants More Time to Pursue Back Taxes

New Mexico’s superintendent of insurance pleaded Wednesday for more time to recover unpaid taxes on insurance premiums and investigate at least one company, after an outside audit uncovered $193 million in uncollected state revenue. Insurance Superintendent John Franchini told a …

Paralyzed Former Race Car Driver Gets First Driverless Car License

Former Indy Racing League driver Sam Schmidt has done a lot in the 16 years since an accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. He runs a racing team and a foundation. He’s raced a sailboat using his chin. …

Friends Concerned About Miami Marlins’ Fernandez Boating

Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was a patron at a Miami River bar and restaurant the same night he and two friends were killed in a boat crash, a spokeswoman for the establishment confirmed Tuesday. A friend of one of …

California Governor Signs Bill Targeting ‘Doctor-Shopping’ for Opioids

California doctors will be required to check a database of prescription narcotics before writing scripts for addictive drugs under legislation Gov. Jerry Brown signed Tuesday that aims to address the scourge of opioid abuse. The measure attempts to crack down …

Texas DWC Claim Files go Digitial

Every month, TDI’s Division of Workers’ Compensation receives hundreds of requests for records of workers’ compensation claims that can date back to the 1960s. DWC first checks to make sure the person requesting the confidential records has a right to …

Older Drivers No Slower at Taking Control of Semi-Autonomous Cars

New research from North Carolina State University finds that older adults have comparable response times to young adults when tasked with taking control of a semi-autonomous vehicle. “Before we see fully autonomous cars enter the marketplace, we are likely to …

FBI Says Database Tracking Police Use of Deadly Force Coming

The FBI will have up and running within two years a database that tracks instances of police use of deadly force, FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers Wednesday at a congressional hearing that reflected the sustained political interest in the …

Natural Disasters Prompt Attention to Climate Change in Assessing Risk

According to the National Climate Assessment, a report released by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, climate change increases the probability of heat waves, drought, heavy downpours, floods, hurricanes and creates more extreme winter storms. With experts suggesting the most …

Delaware Judge Rules Insurer Must Defend Korn’s Ex-Wife in Porn Defamation Suit

A federal judge has ruled that an insurance company is obligated to defend the ex-wife of serial political candidate Richard Korn in a defamation lawsuit he filed against her. Liberty Mutual argued that a homeowner’s policy it issued to Magda …

Business News: CoverHound, Tokio Marine America, GEICO

CoverHound Expands into Commercial Insurance for Small Businesses CoverHound, an insuretech company that allows customers to compare and purchase insurance online, is applying that unique selling proposition to commercial insurance by adding a full suite of business insurance offerings to …