Stonetrust Commercial Insurance, a workers’ compensation carrier based in Louisiana, has expanded into North Carolina, bringing to 13 the number of states in the Southeast and Midwest the company writes in.
Stonetrust said in a statement that it is now accepting submissions from appointed independent agencies for accounts in North Carolina, with effective dates of Jan. 1, 2026.
Stonetrust, led by CEO Michael Dileo, writes workers’ comp and employers’ liability insurance policies, with a focus on construction, wholesale, retail, manufacturing, health care and service-related firms. Headquarters are in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Florida lawmakers in 2013 outlawed the strip-mall casinos, which offer time on computers with slot machine-like and video poker gambling, along with cash payouts, according to news reports. But violations of the law are only misdemeanors and operations can easily set up shop in new locales.
Crump’s law firm and Tallahassee attorney Robert Scott Cox sued the Havana, Florida, café business known as Evan’s Groceries, owned by Fortune MGT 2023 and Manishkumar Patel, court records show. The suit argued that the café kept large amounts of cash on site, failed to report a previous robbery and negligently failed to warn of the dangers.
The jury awarded $550 million in damages for pain and suffering and another $225 million for loss of companionship. Punitive damages were not considered.
It’s unclear if the operation carried liability insurance or if the security guard and the injured clerk were covered by workers’ compensation insurance. Crump said at a news conference that the family may have to seek garnishments of bank accounts and liens on property held by the café owners, news sites reported.
The shooter, Kevontae Washington, was convicted of murder charges in November.