The Marsh insurance brokerage's claims management subsidiary, CS Stars, has reached a $60,000 settlement with New York authorities over a security breach that exposed data from 540,000 people in the s
NICB, based in Des Moines, Ill., reported that the western United States still ranks as the area of the country with the highest auto theft rates, and all the nation's top 10 areas are in the West wit
An ongoing federal investigation in North Carolina has revealed that a small reinsurance broker and confederates scammed two self-insurance groups and a captive insurer out of $39 million in workers'
Richmond, Va.-based insurance broker Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Company said it has acquired Investigative Solutions Inc. (ISI), an Atlanta-based provider of high-level risk management consulting and investig
After many years of increasing arson losses from a variety of sources in the early 1990s, the number of reported arson fires decreased annually from 85,500 in 1996 to only 31,500 in 2005.
Kathleen Blomquist, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said there is an ongoing investigation of "anti-competitive practices in the municipal bond industry." She would not comment further. The SEC does
A general session will discuss the equipment theft problem, recovery challenges and solutions. Break-out classes will provide law enforcement with instruction in equipment identification techniques, i
NICB said 1,235,226 motor vehicles were reported stolen--2,625 fewer than in 2004. Using the FBI's average valuation of $6,173 per stolen vehicle, the NICB calculated this amounts to over $7.6 billion