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New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Rates to Drop 3.9% for 2025
Insurance Journal | October 29, 2024
New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Rates to Drop 3.9% for 2025
New Jersey Commissioner of Banking and Insurance Justin Zimmerman has approved a 6.9% statewide average decrease in rates for workers’ compensation and employers’ liability insurance. The new rates will apply to new and renewal policies effective January 1, 2025. The …
People Moves: Novak Joins Alliant Insurance Services’ Employee Benefits Group as SVP
Insurance Journal | October 29, 2024
People Moves: Novak Joins Alliant Insurance Services’ Employee Benefits Group as SVP
Ron Novak joined Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, as senior vice president and producer within its employee benefits group. Novak, based in Greater Fayetteville, Arkansas, works with employers across Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas. Novak has 29 …
Arkansas Insurance Hall of Fame Honors 5 Inductees
Insurance Journal | October 18, 2024
Arkansas Insurance Hall of Fame Honors 5 Inductees
The Arkansas Insurance Hall of Fame honored five inductees and awarded seven scholarships to insurance students at its annual banquet in Conway on Oct. 17. The banquet was held on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas. The 2024 …
Farm Labor Contractor to Pay Damages Over Pregnancy Discrimination Charge
Insurance Journal | October 18, 2024
Farm Labor Contractor to Pay Damages Over Pregnancy Discrimination Charge
Family Fresh Harvesting, LLC, a farm labor contractor which provides temporary H-2A visas to agricultural workers at nurseries in Michigan and farms in Georgia, entered into a conciliation agreement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to resolve a …
Family of Black Man Killed by Ohio Police Agree to Settlement
Insurance Journal | October 18, 2024
Family of Black Man Killed by Ohio Police Agree to Settlement
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A family is settling a wrongful death lawsuit against Ohio police who fired 94 bullets at a Black man during a chase two years ago. Jayland Walker’s family and the city of Akron reached an agreement …
Texas AG Sues Dallas Pediatrician Over Providing Hormone Treatment to Teens
Insurance Journal | October 18, 2024
Texas AG Sues Dallas Pediatrician Over Providing Hormone Treatment to Teens
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against a Dallas pediatrician, accusing her of violating state law by providing gender-transitioning treatments to at least 21 teenage patients. Thursday’s filing is Paxton’s first attempt at suing a doctor by …
5 Dead After Small Plane Crashes on Island off Southern California Coast
Insurance Journal | October 10, 2024
5 Dead After Small Plane Crashes on Island off Southern California Coast
Five people were killed when a small plane crashed during takeoff from Santa Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, authorities said. The twin-engine Beechcraft 95 crashed shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday, just moments after it departed from Catalina Airport …
First MainStreet Adds Two Agencies
Insurance Journal | October 10, 2024
First MainStreet Adds Two Agencies
First MainStreet Insurance L.C. (FMSI) announced addition of two new agencies, one in Minnesota and the other in Iowa. Joining in September was Kozlowski Insurance Agency, headquartered in Pipestone, Minnesota and two satellite offices in Luverne, MN and Brookings, SD. …
Exxon Granted Largest US Offshore Carbon Storage Site in Texas
Insurance Journal | October 10, 2024
Exxon Granted Largest US Offshore Carbon Storage Site in Texas
Exxon Mobil Corp. won the right to pump carbon dioxide beneath Texas state waters in the Gulf of Mexico, in what will be the largest concession of its kind in the US. The lease granted by the Texas General Land …
J&J’s Court-Shopping Strategy Pits New Jersey Home Against Texas
Insurance Journal | October 10, 2024
J&J’s Court-Shopping Strategy Pits New Jersey Home Against Texas
Johnson & Johnson’s bold move to skirt a US court in New Jersey and seek a potentially friendlier venue in Texas to settle claims its baby powder gave women cancer faces a key decision as soon as Thursday. A federal …