West Trenton, N.J.-based insurer New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company and NJM Bank announced today they have broken ground in Hammonton, N.J. on a $48 million, 146,000 square-foot office building.

Labor officials properly determined that a strip club can't claim its nude and topless dancers are private contractors, rather than wage employees covered by workers' compensation law, the Montana State Supreme Court has ruled.

A coalition of environmental and conservative groups, backed by a consortium of insurance interests, says it will fight legislation to create a federal catastrophe insurance pool.

State Farm recently reached an agreement with the Indiana Department of Insurance to conclude a market conduct examination that began in March of 2007. The examination focuses on State Farm's response to an April, 2006 hailstorm.

Columbus, Ohio-based Grange Insurance said Phil Urban, 56, its president and chief executive officer, will retire in February 2010. Until then he will continue in his current position assisting with transition to a replacement.

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A Congressman critical of American International Group operations is demanding that any candidates for the chairman and chief executive post openings at the firm make detailed financial disclosures.

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