| 1. | Florida Investigating Cause of Multiple Car Pile-Up That Killed 10
Jan 31, 2012 -- Authorities in Florida are trying to determine what caused a horrific highway pileup where vehicles collided one after another on a dark highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were blinded. At least 10 were killed in the early Sunday ... |
| 2. | BB&T to Acquire P/C, Life Insurance Units of Wholesaler Crump Group
Feb 3, 2012 -- North Carolina-based BB&T Corp. is buying the property/casualty and life insurance units of Roseland, N.J.- based insurance wholesaler Crump Group. Under the terms of the agreement, BB&T said it will pay $570 million in cash for Crump ... |
| 3. | Super (Insurance) Coverage for the Super Bowl
Feb 2, 2012 -- They say it's a game, but it's really a lot more than that. For football fans, the Super Bowl is every holiday rolled into one, especially when their teams have made the big game. The stuff that dreams are made of. Non-fans have the commercials to ... |
| 4. | Lawyers Jump Into Cruise Ship Disaster Cases
Jan 30, 2012 -- Soon after Mitchell Proner, a New York personal-injury lawyer, heard about the capsizing of the Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy, he sprang into action. Proner, who specializes in motorcycle-accident lawsuits, has never litigated a maritime ... |
| 5. | Office Super Bowl Pool? How to Pick Like a Pro
Feb 1, 2012 -- With Super Bowl XLVI less than a week away, armchair quarterbacks are flexing their biceps to throw hard-earned cash into the office pool. You will probably do what a lot of people do, and rely on your gut to make your picks. You might step it up a ... |
| 6. | How Insurance Distribution Is Changing
Jan 26, 2012 -- Insurance distribution is changing and agents and brokers—retailers and wholesalers—have to define the value they offer and what type of relationships they will have with carriers and customers in the years ahead, according to a leading ... |
| 7. | Consumer Group Charges Auto Insurers with ‘Disparate Treatment’ of Low Income Families
Jan 30, 2012 -- A consumer group on Monday issued a study that alleges "disparate treatment" of low-to moderate-income families by auto insurers nationwide. The group is asking state insurance commissioners to consider lowering minimum liability coverage ... |
| 8. | Maryland High Court Sides With Allstate in Coastal Homeowners Case
Jan 31, 2012 -- The Maryland Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, ruled in favor of Allstate last week. It upheld a previous lower court's ruling that the insurer was within its rights to stop writing new homeowners policies in coastal areas of the state in ... |
| 9. | Woman Takes Honda to Small-Claims, Wins Big
Feb 3, 2012 -- A Southern California woman took Honda to small-claims court and won in a big way. Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Douglas Carnahan ruled Wednesday that the automaker misled Heather Peters about the potential fuel economy of her hybrid car ... |
| 10. | Georgia Jury Awards $2.3 Million in Kroger Customer’s Suit
Jan 30, 2012 -- A Gwinnett County, Georgia jury has awarded $2.3 million in damages after a judge determined that Kroger destroyed and manipulated key video evidence involving an injured customer. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that 49-year-old Craig ... |
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