Suellyn Boastick of the Lewis Insurance Store Inc., in Champaign, Illinois, has just been awarded the most prestigious honor available to insurance customer service representatives – the 2002 National Outstanding CSR of the Year Award. The Society of Certified Insurance …
Douglas J. Gant is the 2002 recipient of the Jack F. Derrickson Award for Outstanding Course Leadership given by the American Institute for CPCU and the Insurance Institute of America (IIA). Gant is a team manager with State Farm Mutual …
Jacobson Associates, a staffing provider specializing in the insurance industry, has opened a Boston office to expand its national presence. The company’s Boston office will provide staffing services primarily through the organization’s permanent placement arm, Jacobson Associates, and its interim …
Crawford & Company President and CEO Grover Davis, and Crawford CFO, John Giblin, will address The Wall Street Analyst Forum’s 45th Institutional Investor Conference in New York City on Sept. 10, at 9 a.m. EST. Approximately 100 public companies will …
The Insurance Fraud Bureau of Massachusetts will host a conference Nov. 7-8 to discuss new technologies and techniques used to prevent insurance claim fraud. Entitled “Insurance Claim Fraud: Developing the Models and Mining the Data,” the conference will be held …
Florida-based insurance holding company Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired the John Manner Insurance Agency Inc., of Joliet, Ill. Brown & Brown said the John Manner Insurance Agency, with annualized revenues of approximately $4.2 million, is a full-service property and …
Fitch Ratings has opened an office in Tampa, Fla. that will concentrate on credit analytics. Stating that the office is now fully operational, Fitch said the Tampa office marks the latest step in Fitch Public Finance’s development of a nationwide …
As anticipated, the Texas Department of Insurance has filed a proposed rule that would limit insurer’s ability to deny homeowners insurance coverage based solely on a history of water damage claims. Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor described the new rule …
Dallas-based insurer, GAINSCO Inc., announced changes to its Board of Directors. Hugh Balloch, a principal with Goff Moore Strategic Partners L.P. (GMSP) was elected to fill one of the two Director positions held by representatives designated by GMSP. He replaces …
Texas-based Argonaut Group, Inc., a national underwriter of specialty insurance products in niche areas of the property-casualty market, named Barbara Bufkin vice president of corporate business development. A 22-year veteran of the industry, Bufkin will be responsible for developing growth …
