Today's Headlines National It started with allegations of hangman's nooses, graffiti and racist comments targeting a handful of black workers at a trucking company ... Health insurer Aetna Inc. said on Monday that it would buy rival Coventry Health Care Inc. for $5.6 billion to increase its share of the ... An estimated 2,900 clothes dryer fires in residential buildings are reported to U.S. fire departments each year and cause an estimated $35 ... Beazley has established BBR Services, a new business unit dedicated to helping clients that have suffered a data breach manage the ... Program administrator Business Risk Partners (BRP) will underwrite three additional programs in professional and management liability ... The soft market has made the job of insurance agents very difficult the last few years. Competition has been extremely fierce, and premiums...  East New Jersey regulators recently reminded personal auto insurers and producers that they must offer a $250,000 coverage limit as the default ... A measure that Maryland lawmakers hoped would address liability concerns relating to a court ruling on dog bites by pit bulls has died in ... The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) named John Murphy as its state affairs manager for the Northeast region. ... The Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance (SIAA), a national alliance of over 4,000 independent insurance agencies, has added six new agency ...  Midwest The founder of an Iowa-based brokerage pleaded not guilty on Aug. 17 to fraud charges in a suspected $200 million embezzlement scheme that ... Money from a $2.2 million court settlement over the death of a 29-year-old man who was fatally shot by a Michigan police officer in 2010 ... Jonah Pfeffer, a reinsurance broker whose 15-year career includes work with clients in specialized casualty market segments, has joined ... Many homeowners in Missouri are seeing the impact of the drought with cracked walls in the basement, forcing thousands of dollars in repair ... A lawsuit filed on Aug. 17 alleges that St. Louis, Mo., jailers forced inmates to fight each other for the amusement of guards and bet on ...  Southeast Responding to criticism over its home inspection program, officials of Florida's policyholder-backed insurer said they will no longer ... West Virginia employers' rates for workers' compensation are heading down again after regulators approved a statewide average 9.1 ... A Columbia, Mississippi man is under federal indictment for allegedly filing $10,000 worth of false claims for Deepwater Horizon oil spill ... The Business Owners Liability Team (BOLT) insurance agency is opening a regional office in Sarasota after acquiring two Florid agencies. ... USI Insurance Services has acquired Suncoast Insurance Associates Inc., a Tampa, Florida-based insurance brokerage specializing in ... Jason Richardson has been named chief operating officer of Lockton's Southeast operations with responsibility for offices in Atlanta, ... Aon Risk Solutions, the brokerage and risk management business of Aon plc, recently announced the addition of Wesley Williams as surety ... South Central A Texas jury has awarded nearly $1 million to a Union Pacific worker who sued the railroad after claiming he was infected with West Nile ... Newport Beach, Calif.-based specialty insurance brokerage firm, Alliant Insurance Services, announced that Jerry D. Jones has joined the ... The search for arsonists suspected of starting wildfires in central Oklahoma is ongoing, state and local authorities say, but with little ... Strong thunderstorms dumping as much as 4 inches of rain flooded streets, trapped drivers and collapsed buildings in Dallas on Aug. 18. ... West Bondholders and bond insurers are challenging the eligibility of San Bernardino, California, to file for bankruptcy protection, claiming ... The California attorney general's office is suing a Los Angeles County doctor over her practice of refusing to accept lower insurance ... Pershing County officials are taking exception to claims by Burning Man organizers that a new ordinance that would raise fees is intended ... A Santa Fe couple is suing an area resort for injuries they say they received were hurt in a fall down a steep hill after employees ... Gov. Sean Parnell is requesting that a federal disaster declaration be issued for Upper Cook Inlet salmon fisheries because of very weak ... A workers' compensation proposal for California is getting the backing of the Department of Industrial Relations as well as seeming ... International Tropical Storm Helene made landfall off the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday and weakened into a tropical depression as it plowed up Mexico's ... In a bulletin issued at 5:00 a.m. AST, The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Hurricane Gordon has passed "through the Eastern Azores ... Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon plc, announced that it has expanded its Aon Benfield Research ... London-based Arc Legal Assistance announced the launch of "two legal expenses schemes for e-Underwriting, the new division of OIM ... Sponsored Content Meet Marine Jeff Combs, Swett Warrior who lost his arm in Iraq Check it out.Join the Insurance Journal Network Insurance Journal TV  | Record high temperatures in the Midwest have farmers facing the worst drought in over 20 year,... | | Managing General Underwriter Concord Specialty Risk, which specializes in reps and warranties... |
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