Ed Kuhl The Main Street America Group announced the promotions of Ed Kuhl and Toni Porterfield to senior vice presidents, the promotion of Jack Crawford to assistant vice president, and the appointments of Bill Garvey to assistant secretary and Steve …
Population–and insurance–experts wish more Americans would heed the warning not to go near the water but clearly they aren’t listening. More than half of all Americans–153 million people–now live on or near a coast, an increase of 33 million since …
Martha Ball has lived her whole life on Block Island, a pork chop-shaped slice of heaven off Rhode Island’s coast. She had no real worries for years about the insurance on her centuries-old, Cape-style home. She paid her bills, filed …
By Raleigh Doodle, CPCU I have a bone to pick with the insurance industry. Why is an industry that loses billions on cat losses every year so hot under the collar about dogs? We all know there’s a problem. According …
Liberty Mutual Group has joined a group of insurers opposing the acquisition of ACE American Reinsurance Company by Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. Boston-based Liberty Mutual has requested that the Pennsylvania Insurance Department which is considering the sale hold …
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer reassured the business world and those affiliated with American International Group that criminal charges are not likely to flow from his department’s continuing investigations of AIG. Also, the attorney for former AIG Chairman Maurice …
Farmers Insurance Group announced on Monday its full return to the Texas Homeowners Insurance Market. The announcement comes with premium reductions of up to 20 percent. “We have been doing business in Texas for more than 50 years and we …
Dallas-based Heartland Marketing Group welcomed Brian Simpson as the regional sales manager in Lee’s Summit, Mo. Simpson will be responsible for executing HMG’s growth campaign in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas. HMG currently provides agents in the four-state region access …
An executive of embattled data broker ChoicePoint Inc. said the company is developing a system that would allow people to review their personal information that is sold to law enforcement agencies, employers, landlords and businesses. “You will receive the reports …
The Main Street America Group announced Robert Restrepo Jr. has been appointed as its senior vice president, insurance operations. Restrepo will oversee the company’s commercial lines, personal lines, claims, information technology and staff marketing functions. Most recently, Restrepo was president …
