Thousands of irate homeowners mobbed state insurance officials in Florida and Alabama to complain about a wait of more than six months for their claims to be settled from the 2004 hurricanes. Tom Gall-agher, Florida Chief Financial Officer, called town …
Robert Bothwell Robert J. Bothwell has been appointed managing director of Beecher Carlson Holdings Inc.’s new office in Boston. Bothwell, a former principal at William Gallagher Associates will also head the company’s National Energy Practice. The firm also announced that …
Veronica Hall, an associate agent with Maiden Financial in Martinsburg, W. Va., has opened what she thinks is West Virginia’s first insurance agency catering to Hispanic clients. Hall said she didn’t intend to work in the insurance industry and didn’t …
Insurance costs are a problem and insurance companies are sued too often, according to a new poll completed by Charleston-based RMS Strategies and sponsored by the Professional Independent Insurance Agents of West Virginia and the West Virginia Insurance Federation. The …
As it does every year, the insurance industry is going to have to battle the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, among others, when it pushes for civil justice reforms, particularly when it comes to changing the Unfair Trade Practices Act, …
Progressive Insurance’s Drive Group (Drive Insurance) will offer its commercial auto product in South Carolina through more than 430 agents. Drive(SM) Insurance is The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies’ new brand designed ex-pressly for independent agents and brokers. It is …
Information about the insurance industry and insurance regulation in the state were shared by the North Carolina Insurance Commission in Raleigh as it welcomed 19 hospital administrators and head physicians from Armenia, Azerbijian, Georgia, Moldovia and the Ukraine. The group …
A call for nominations for the third annual Florida CHOICE Awards for Workers’ Compensation has been issued by CHOICE Medical Management Services LLC of Tampa, Fla. The program recognizes physicians who deliver remarkably high-quality care, communicate promptly with all parties …
The Legislature is considering a bill that could make the state a center for international insurance, much as it already is for international banking. The House Insurance Committee unanimously passed the measure Feb. 22. The Senate banking and insurance panel …
Cobbs Allen & Hall Inc. of Birming-ham, Ala., and Senn Dunn, of Greens-boro, N.C., have been accepted as members of Assurex Global of Columbus, Ohio, a large insurance association designed to specifically serve independent agents and brokers. Only one affiliate …
