Minnesota health officials will allow residents with intractable pain to buy medical marijuana starting in August, they announced Wednesday in a long-awaited decision that could expand enrollment in the state’s struggling program by thousands of patients. After months of weighing … Source: Claims Journal

Building on its established presence in both film and TV productions as well as live events, Allianz Group’s specialist corporate insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), announced the launch of a dedicated motorsports unit in North America to be … Source: Claims Journal

Mexico weathered a record eastern Pacific hurricane season with almost no deaths and relatively little damage, given the intensity of this year’s storms. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its 2015 hurricane season report Tuesday, saying that “this … Source: Claims Journal

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says two of the state’s largest homeowners’ insurance companies won excessive and unwarranted rate increases of about 9 percent by taking advantage of last winter’s record snowfall. The Boston Globe reports that Healey’s office found … Source: Claims Journal

South Carolina taxpayers will need to pay at least $114 million for the state’s share of damage caused by October’s massive flooding, which has a price tag topping $1 billion, the governor said Tuesday. Gov. Nikki Haley said the state … Source: Claims Journal

The next year likely will be one of continued disruptive change in the U.S. property/casualty insurance market, and insurers will need to focus on innovation in all areas of the business to remain successful, according to the 2016 EY US … Source: Claims Journal

Missed deadlines at the office that decides who can sue Connecticut government have sparked discussions among state lawmakers and attorneys about whether the office should be overhauled or even eliminated. The state attorney general’s office raised concerns last month that … Source: Claims Journal

Go ahead, rant about the snow on Twitter. It can ease traffic on slippery, congested roads. That’s the crux of a University at Buffalo study which examined how weather-related tweets can be analyzed to bolster computer models that, among other … Source: Claims Journal

A stretch of the southbound side of Interstate 89 is a hotspot for speeders traveling faster than 100 miles per hour and a member of the Vermont State Police’s traffic safety unit has made a specialty of catching them. Trooper … Source: Claims Journal

Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group announced the promotion of Wanda Periou to director of Claims for the Atlantic Region, Karen Porter to director of Technical Operations for the Atlantic and Northeast Regions and Joeline D’Anjou to director of Claims … Source: Claims Journal