Posts by Hometown Insurance
Q1 2023 M&A Transactions Lowest Since 2019
This year’s first-quarter insurance agency mergers and acquisitions were down to the lowest total since Q1 2019, according to a recent report from OPTIS Partners. The total number of transactions (158) showed a 17% drop from Q1 2022 (190) and …
Read More A Record Start to the 2023 U.S. Tornado Season
The U.S. has experienced a record number of tornadoes in the first three months of 2023 according to preliminary data from the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center (NWS SPC), delivering an active start to the U.S. severe convective storm …
Read More 45 Years Ago Today, the Deadliest Construction Accident in U.S. Killed 51
It was 45 years ago today that a huge scaffold system collapsed inside a cooling tower under construction at a West Virginia power plant, sending 51 workers tumbling to their deaths 170 feet below. Eleven members of one family were …
Read More Uber Eats Driver Slain, Dismembered in Florida After Making Delivery
A Florida man is charged with murder and other offenses in the slaying and dismemberment of an Uber Eats driver who had brought food to the assailant’s house, authorities said Tuesday. Oscar Solis Jr., 30, is charged with killing the …
Read More California Community Braces for Floods as Epic Snow Melts
Ron Caetano is packed and ready to go. His family photos and valuables are in the trailer and he’s put food in carry totes. He moved the rabbits and chickens and their automatic feeders to higher ground. He and his …
Read More New Mexicans Affected by Last Year’s Wildfire Get FEMA Aid
The Federal Emergency Management Agency Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Claims Office, charged with administering nearly $4 billion in emergency financial aid for survivors of last year’s record-breaking wildfire in New Mexico, is expected to open its three regional offices to the …
Read More $1.6M Settlement Reached in Nevada in Handcuffed Prisoner’s Death
The family of a handcuffed inmate who was shot and killed in 2014 by a prison guard trainee reached a $1.6 million settlement with Nevada prison officials, capping a nearly decadelong legal battle that raised questions about the use of …
Read More Massachusetts High Court Opens 27,000 Drunk Driving Cases to Reconsideration
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that 27,000 people who pled guilty or were convicted of drunk driving from June 1, 2011 to April 18, 2019, are entitled to have their cases reconsidered due to the state police lab’s …
Read More Uber Drivers Are Not Interstate Workers Exempt From Arbitration, Court Rules
Uber Technologies Inc drivers are not exempt from a U.S. law requiring them to bring work-related legal disputes in private arbitration rather than joining class action lawsuits in court, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday. A panel of the …
Read More Louisiana Man Latest to be Sentenced for Staged Automobile Collision Scheme
United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Lois Russell, age 63 of Gibson, Louisiana, was sentenced on April 20, 2023 after previously pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section …
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