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Web Services Turns Hit Ratios Upside Down for Surplus Lines MGA.

Jun 30 2015 // Dallas, TX, June 30 2015–To use a baseball metaphor, Texas All Risk General Agency (TAR) is batting .725 with Atlantic Casualty Insurance Company at the mid-year point.According to TAR VP David Day, “With the All...

Wal-Mart Settles With Tracy Morgan Over Turnpike Crash Suit

May 27 2015 // Tracy Morgan and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. settled the actor-comedian’s lawsuit over a New Jersey Turnpike crash that had left him in a coma for days and killed another comedian.Morgan was riding in a van that was struck...

Texas All Risk General Agency, Inc. Awarded Exemplary Agent by Nautilus Insurance Group

Apr 29 2015 // Dallas, TX, April 29, 2015 – Texas All Risk General Agency, Inc. has been awarded the rare distinction “Exemplary Agent” by Nautilus Insurance Group (a W. R. Berkley Company). Nautilus gives this...

Indiana Woman Awarded $510K for Injury Outside Wal-Mart Store

Mar 30 2015 // A northern Indiana jury has awarded more than a half-million dollars to a woman who was injured when she stepped into a hole outside a Wal-Mart store.The (Munster) Times reports the Porter County jury awarded 29-year-old...

Va. Retailer Lumber Liquidators Faces Safety Inquiry

Mar 26 2015 // The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday it is investigating Lumber Liquidators Chinese-made laminate flooring following a national TV broadcast raised concerns over levels of formaldehyde.Chairman Elliot...

Va. Retailer Lumber Liquidators to Pay for Safety Testing of Flooring

Mar 16 2015 // Retailer Lumber Liquidators said on March 12 that it stands by its products and will pay for the safety testing of laminate floors for customers to help ease concerns.The Toano, Virginia, company addressed concerns raised...

Texas Insurance Wholesalers Wary of Retail Agent Association MGA

Feb 23 2015 // In mid-November 2014, Texas’ largest association of independent retail insurance agents took the unprecedented step of acquiring a managing general agency as a way of providing its members greater access to...

Wal-Mart Driver Appeals in Bid to Delay Morgan Crash Suit

Feb 20 2015 // A Wal-Mart driver involved in a highway crash that killed a comic and severely injured actor-comedian Tracy Morgan has asked a judge to reconsider her decision not to delay Morgan’s lawsuit against the company.Truck...

Minnesota Suppliers Hit by Target Canada Bankruptcy Filing

Feb 17 2015 // The end of Target’s Canadian operations is having a financial impact on businesses in Minnesota that supplied the retailer.Target’s Canadian division filed for bankruptcy protection last month and owes nearly...

Texas Insurance Wholesalers Wary of Retail Agent Association MGA

Feb 9 2015 // In mid-November 2014, Texas’ largest association of independent retail insurance agents took the unprecedented step of acquiring a managing general agency as a way of providing its members greater access to...

Oregon Man Sues Walmart over Gas Can Explosion

Feb 9 2015 // A Coos County, Ore., man badly burned when he poured gasoline on a fire is suing Walmart, claiming the gas can he bought there was defective.Daniel Rowlett is seeking $13 million. He says Walmart sold him a plastic can...

Wal-Mart Driver in Morgan Crash Can’t Halt Civil Suit

Feb 4 2015 // The Wal-Mart Stores Inc. driver whose truck crashed into a van carrying actor-comedian Tracy Morgan lost a legal bid to halt a lawsuit against the company while criminal charges are pending against him. Kevin Roper, who is...

Oregon Man Sues Walmart Over Gas Can Explosion

Jan 27 2015 // A Coos County, Ore. man badly burned when he poured gasoline on a fire is suing Walmart, claiming the gas can he bought there was defective.The Register-Guard reported Daniel Rowlett is seeking $13 million. He says Walmart...

Wal-Mart Settles With Family of Comedian Who Died in N.J. Turnpike Crash

Jan 23 2015 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reached a confidential legal settlement with the family of comedian James McNair, who died in a June 7 accident on the New Jersey Turnpike that also seriously injured actor-comedian Tracy Morgan.The...

Kansas Woman Sues Wal-Mart over Injuries from Black Friday Sale

Jan 8 2015 // A southeast Kansas woman who says she was trampled at a Wal-Mart store on Black Friday in 2013 is suing the retail giant, claiming it did not do enough to protect her or make it clear to customers that so-called doorbuster...

Officials Suspect Fire at Georgia Wal-Mart Set Intentionally

Dec 5 2014 // Fire officials say they believe a recent blaze at a metro Atlanta Wal-Mart was set intentionally. Gwinnett County fire spokesman Tommy Rutledge said in a statement that the fire at the department store in unincorporated...

Target: Retailer Owes No Duty to Banks in Data Breach

Nov 23 2014 // A Target Corp. lawyer told a judge that the company had no legal obligation to banks that claim to have lost tens of millions of dollars after a hack last year on the retailer’s payment processing systems.Target...

Insurers for Sears Suppliers Pulling Back; Retailer Says Finances Fine

Oct 9 2014 // Three of the biggest insurance firms for Sears Holdings Corp.’s suppliers are seeking to reduce coverage, prompting at least one medium-sized vendor to halt shipments to the department-store chain, people with...

Wal-Mart Seeks to Settle Negligence Lawsuit by Tracy Morgan

Oct 1 2014 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it wants to settle a negligence lawsuit by actor-comedian Tracy Morgan, a day after blaming the celebrity for injuries he sustained when his limousine bus was struck by a speeding company...

Wal-Mart Says Tracy Morgan Is to Blame for Injuries in Highway Crash

Sep 29 2014 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said actor-comedian Tracy Morgan is to blame for injuries he sustained in June highway crash because he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.Morgan, who was critically injured when the limousine bus he was...