Austin-based Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported it has created an account executive council (AEC) designed to help the company make its online services better for agents’ account executives, or customer service representatives (CSRs). “We want to use these account executives’ …
ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of The ACE Group of Companies, announced two appointments in ACE Select Markets’ Recreational Vehicle unit. Pam Simon has been named assistant vice president, responsible for developing product strategy and identifying new distribution channels …
Atlanta-based Ebix Inc., an international developer and supplier of software and e-commerce solutions to the insurance industry, announced the appointment of Kenneth Merin, an attorney with approximately 30 years of insurance industry and prominent federal and state governmental experience, to …
The United States Bankruptcy Court in Newark, N.J. has ordered a former New Jersey chiropractor to pay Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company and Encompass Insurance more than $6.6 million dollars. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Rosemary Gambardella said Mathew E. Lister, …
North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long has signed three settlement agreements with companies that reportedly participated in discriminatory rating practices in North Carolina. The settlements with the companies, Cincinnati Life Insurance Company, American National Life Insurance Company and New York …
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher’s troubles keep mounting. Fisher was recently taken out of the race for the U.S. Senate by Democratic rival, U.S. Rep. Brad Carson, 37, who won the Democratic primary vote by a wide margin. Now his …
The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc. has taken its case for reauthorizing the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 before the end of the year to Capitol Hill. Three members of the Syracuse-based trade association’s leadership …
Accidents involving rented items such as lifts, forklifts, trailers, tents and chairs posed the greatest risks for consumers and were associated with the highest numbers of fatalities, injuries and damages in the equipment rental industry, according to the findings of …
U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. announced that Genia Walden, Carrie Keel and Joan Corder have joined U.S. Risk Underwriters in the company’s Dallas, Texas office. Walden will be a member of the Commercial Underwriting Division as a senior underwriter. She …
As part of its efforts to reduce the rate of child drownings, and deaths and injuries due to entrapments in pool and spa suction outlets, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is holding public hearings this summer on pool …
