Today's Headlines National Complacency at BP, as well as at Transocean Ltd and Halliburton, led to serious missteps prior to the rig explosion that unleashed millions... Union-represented housekeepers filed injury complaints against Hyatt Hotels Corp. properties in eight U.S. cities Tuesday, but the company... Professional services company Towers Watson will buy insurance consulting and software company EMB to expand its offerings to property and... Insurers Allstate Corp. and Prudential Financial announced plans to return cash to shareholders Tuesday with a stock buyback plan and... Global property/casualty insurer Chartis Inc. says it is in the process of laying off about two percent of its workforce as part of a... Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has raised its counterparty credit rating on ProAssurance Corp. to 'BBB' from 'BBB-' with a stable... Specialty insurer Markel International has broadened its suite of products for directors and officers with the launch of three new products.... Aon Corp. reported that Andrew Appel, the firm's chief operating officer, will be leaving the company at the end of the year. The company... The federal government's crackdown on fraud and errors in Medicare and Medicaid is raising liability issues for firms that specialize in...  East Proposed 30 percent increases in what medical providers in New York are paid for treating workers' compensation injuries could have... A judge has limited the potential liability of the public transit agency in the District of Columbia in a suit brought by survivors of those... John Mina has been appointed managing partner at Willis of Maryland, Inc. Mina will be responsible for business development for Willis'... Massachusetts agency Provider Insurance has hired Sharon Cardoso as personal lines account manager. She will be responsible for acquiring... Pennsylvania-based Keystone Insurers Group named Elizabeth Schenk as vice president of sales and marketing. She is a 22-year insurance... Michael Hayes will join Pennsylvania's NSM Insurance Group as the director of its Staffing Lines Program. The program serves the staffing...  Midwest An Ohio-based insurance company is donating more than $20,000 worth of arson investigation gear to Toledo, which has seen a rash of vacant... Lansing, Mich.-based workers compensation insurer Accident Fund Insurance Co. of America, was one of four Lansing-area businesses recently...  Southeast Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Co. wants a public hearing on the Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney's denial of its... The city of Myrtle Beach is suing 11 hotels to make them remove their swimming pool enclosures. The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported the... Oil giant BP says it has paid more than $657 million for grants, claims and recovery costs in Alabama from the oil spill in the Gulf of... Texas / South Central If enforcement actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance this year in response to late filing of surplus lines insurance policies... IMA of Texas Inc., a retail insurance broker and risk management firm based in Dallas, has added three new directors of client service. Drew... W. Martin Yung, president of El Paso, Texas-based insurance brokerage and risk management firm JDW Insurance, announced that Rene Luis Diaz...  West Washington's Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has announced a 12 percent average increase in workers' compensation insurance... California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has announced he is filing a lawsuit challenging a California Office of Administrative Law... John Trask, a principal in the Employee Benefits department of Barney & Barney LLC, has been recognized for his contributions to the... Newport Beach, Calif.-based GCube Insurance Services Inc., an insurer of renewable energy technologies, announced that Sara Eisenstat has... International Dutch bancassurance group ING said on Wednesday it planned two initial public offerings, rather than one, for its insurance activities as... Germany's Allianz Group announced strong results for the third quarter and confirmed its operating profit outlook for 2010. Revenues in the... Aon came up with the conclusion that although recent events have "increased demand and enquiries for business interruption insurance," there... Willis Group Holdings announced that it has appointed Francis Kean, "one of the UK's leading directors & officers and professional... A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of 'A' (Excellent) and issuer credit... A.M. 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