September 22, 2005
David Morse & Associates, a national claims administration and independent adjusting company based in Los Angeles, announces the appointment of Juan Avila as the manager for DM&A’s Long Beach, Calif. branch. Avila has been with David Morse & Associates since …
September 22, 2005
Burns & Wilcox Ltd. named Lisa Sanderson underwriter in the company’s Reno office. As a Burns & Wilcox underwriter, Sanderson is responsible for new and renewal production and relationship development with commercial lines agents and brokers. Sanderson joins Burns & …
September 22, 2005
Salt Lake City-based Advantage Workers Compensation Insurance Company recently announced that Linda M. Feller has joined the company as CFO. Feller comes to the organization from Select Portfolio Servicing, a $200+ million national mortgage servicing company, where she was a …
September 21, 2005
While meteorologists are still not saying for sure where Hurricane Rita will touch down in the next 24 to 36 hours, a slight change in course during the day on Thursday and into the evening may spare both Houston and …
September 21, 2005
The Eastern Chapter of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society announced it will be hosting an educational seminar, The New Ethics of Insurance, at The Union League Club on Sept. 28, 2005, in New York City. Insurance industry leaders will provide …
September 21, 2005
As many people across the nation watched on television Wednesday evening, a JetBlue airliner, scheduled on a cross country flight with 139 passengers and six crew members, made a safe emergency landing just after 6 p.m. (Pacific time) at Los …
September 21, 2005
The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents and its affiliate, the Texas Insurance Professionals, are recommending that Texas insurance regulators and federal authorities ease certain insurance regulations that apply to insurance claims processing, to assist consumers in the path of …
September 21, 2005
The Insurance Council of Texas reported that insurance companies have begun to mobilize their catastrophe teams to prepare for the landfall of Hurricane Rita. Texas insurers are repositioning their mobile response teams and reserving blocks of motel and hotel rooms …
September 21, 2005
American Financial Group, Inc. has executed a definitive agreement to purchase Farmers Crop Insurance Alliance, Inc. (Farmers) from Farmers Alliance Mutual Insurance Company (Farmers Alliance). Farmers is a leading provider of multi-peril crop and crop hail insurance whose gross written …
September 21, 2005
Even figuring in the relatively high cost of workers’ compenstion insurance, employers in Midwestern states like Missouri and Illinois paid a lower hourly costs for employee compensation than the national average. According to data released today by the Bureau of …