North Carolina School Board Settles With Student Burned by Melted Cheese

The Alamance-Burlington, North Carolina, Board of Education has settled with a student burned by melted cheese in a school cafeteria. The Times-News reports that during a hearing Dec. 7, the school board agreed to pay the girl and her mother …

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Florida Approves Removal of Up to 75,115 Policies from Citizens

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved the removal of up to 72,534 personal residential policies and 2,581 commercial residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. The following three companies have been approved to participate: Avatar Property & …

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Slife Joins Schauer Group in New Cleveland Office

David Slife has joined risk management and insurance services firm, Schauer Group Inc., as client executive of employee benefits. He will lead the employee benefits practice at the company’s newly opened Cleveland, Ohio, branch office. Slife has nine years of …

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Texas Sets Seasonal Worker Adjusted Gross Annual Payroll Requirement

The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has increased for 2016 the adjusted annual payroll requirement of an employer for the coverage of seasonal workers from $54,229 to $54,359. This is an increase of .24 percent based on the inflation …

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Hurricane Patricia Takes It Relatively Easy on Texas

Drenching storms that the remnants of Hurricane Patricia dragged into Texas finally cleared on Oct. 25 without leaving behind the death or devastation of torrential rain and floods that hit the state earlier in the year. Some parts of Texas …

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Study Shows Pay Disparity for Women, Minorities at U. of Missouri

Female faculty members at the University of Missouri tend to make $16,000 less than their male counterparts, while racial and ethnic minority faculty members also make $16,000 less than their majority counterparts, according to a study released at a recent …

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Safety Experts: Oklahoma Quakes a National Security Threat

  In the months after Sept. 11, 2001, as U.S. security officials assessed the top targets for potential terrorist attacks, the small town of Cushing, Okla., received special attention. Even though it is home to fewer than 10,000 people, Cushing is …

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Louisiana Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates Set to Decline Again

Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon reports that Louisiana businesses are expected to see a decrease in their workers’ compensation rates in 2016. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) recently proposed an overall decrease of 2.7 percent for Louisiana employers …

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Hanover CFO Greenfield Dies; CEO Eppinger Assumes Role

Hanover Insurance Group Inc. Chief Financial Officer David Greenfield has died, leading Fred Eppinger, the insurer’s leader for more than a decade, to take on a dual role ahead of his planned departure. Greenfield, 53, died over the weekend after …

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Lloyd’s CEO Beale, 5 Others in Insurance Named LGBT Role Models

Inga Beale, CEO of Lloyd’s of London, has been named an outstanding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) executive role model by the London-based LGBT business organization OUTstanding and Financial Times. Beale, ranked the #1 LGBT role model, is one …

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Zhang to Head New Odyssey Re Representative Office in Beijing

Odyssey Re Holdings Corp. announced that it has received regulatory approval from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to establish a representative office in China. The bulletin said, the “new office will be based in Beijing and led by Jane …

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Dewey Case Ends with Hung Jury; Top Execs Avoid Jail

Three former top executives of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP avoided potential prison terms after a Manhattan jury failed to agree on whether they lied to investors in the run-up to the largest law-firm bankruptcy in history. The mistrial followed weeks …

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ABI Notes UK Government Report Shows Rising Cyber Crimes

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has noted that the latest UK Government crime figures, released on Monday, “show a rise in recorded crime due to cyber offences being recorded for the first time. Matt Cullen, the ABI’s Head of …

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Marine Crimes in SE. Asia at Highest Level in Years: Dryad Maritime Study

In its latest report for the third quarter of 2015 Dryad Maritime, the UK’s maritime intelligence company, found that global maritime crime is showing “a stark rise of 38 percent of incidents across Southeast Asia,” compared to the first nine …

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Swiss Re Names Baertschi President of Reinsurance – Latin America

Swiss Re announced that Urs Baertschi has been appointed to the new position of President of Reinsurance, Latin America, effective January 1, 2016. He will have overall responsibility for Swiss Re’s reinsurance business in Latin America region, which includes Mexico, …

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AIR Analyzes Typhoon Koppu’s Heavy Flooding Impact on the Philippines

A report from catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide highlights “widespread flooding, landslides, wrecked roads and bridges, downed trees, and power outages” in the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Koppu’s passage. The storm has finally moved over the Island of …

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South Carolina Issues Emergency Orders to 63 Dam Owners

South Carolina environmental regulators have issued emergency orders to the owners of 63 dams, of which almost half are in Richland County. Officials with the Department of Health and Environmental Control say they assessed 390 dams, issuing emergency orders to …

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MarketScout Hires Wittwer to Private Client Solutions Division in South Carolina

MarketScout, the national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA headquartered in Dallas, has expanded its Private Client Solutions (PCS) E&S underwriting division with the hire of Crystal Wittwer. Wittwer has over 15 years of industry experience and will serve as …

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South Carolina Bar Ordered to Pay $3.85M for Serving Drunk Driver

A Richland, South Carolina jury has ruled that a local bar owes $3.85 million in a negligence verdict issued in connection with the bar’s role in serving liquor to a drunken man who later was in a wreck that killed …

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Missouri Glass Company to Appeal OSHA Penalties

An official with a southeast Missouri glass company where a worker suffered third-degree burns says the firm will appeal proposed penalties of $122,000. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the proposed penalties on Oct. 14 for Piramal Glass …

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