Posts by Hometown Insurance

Venbrook Group, LLC, based in Woodland Hills, Calif., named Brooke Norton Lais chief marketing officer. Lais will define the strategic direction and development of the company’s marketing, planning, and communication activities, working across the retail, wholesale, programs and claims services …

New Jersey is refusing to allow a shore town whose sand dunes have washed away in places to build a bulkhead to protect itself, ruling that no one is in imminent danger. The state Department of Environmental Protection told North …

Lex Greensill’s fraud and “conspiracy” with commodities tycoon Sanjeev Gupta should prevent the financier’s collapsed bank from making a $400 million claim, Zurich Insurance Group said in a London lawsuit. Greensill Bank AG’s administrators sued Zurich to recoup losses of …

The preliminary total damage and economic loss from the intense storms and record rainfall in California this week will be between $9 billion and $11 billion, according to AccuWeather estimates released on Monday. The atmospheric river hit California Saturday and …

J&M Industries, Inc., a manufacturing and distribution company based in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, has agreed to pay a former employee $105,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. According …

A dead goose was found in part of the flight control system of a medical helicopter that crashed in western Oklahoma, killing all three people on board, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board. The report …

WHITING, Ind. (AP) — Power has been restored to BP’s sprawling oil refinery in northwest Indiana following an outage that prompted the company to temporarily shut down the complex and evacuate workers, BP said last Friday. BP spokesperson Christina Audisho …

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A second contractor said last Thursday that it has reached a $25 million settlement over its role in Flint, Michigan’s lead-contaminated water scandal. The class-action litigation agreement includes payments of $1,500 for individual minors, according to …

Pennsylvania workers’ compensation rates will be going down for employers beginning April 1. Insurance Commissioner Mike Humphreys on January 23 approved an overall decrease in loss costs of -7.88%, more than doubling last year’s decrease of -3.33%. Humphreys approved the …

Completely driverless vehicles traveled nearly 3.3 million miles in California last year, over five times the previous year’s total, even as concerns rose in the wake of a Cruise robotaxi accident, state data on vehicle testing released on Friday showed. …