Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services Inc., Rocklin, Calif., has a new commercial automobile market available in California underwritten by Commerce West Insurance Co. The program is designed for vehicles up to 45,000 gross vehicle weight. The program will entertain classes …
Los Angeles Abacus Insurance Brokers Inc. has changed the name of its online wholesale technology division APM Platform to Abacus.net. The name change is effective January 3, 2007. “Abacus.net better reflects the online nature of our business and the network …
New marketing communications firm targets non-competing program administrators and retail agencies West Chester, Pa.-based Venture Insurance Programs has created a new marketing communications firm, Vertibrands Inc., dedicated to program administrators and retails agencies. Vertibrands (www.vertibrands.com) is a full-service marketing communications …
Mexican trucker Brigido Moctezuma lives in a city just south of Mexico’s border with Texas, far from talks on whether he’ll be able to drive his loads of vehicle air bags all the way to assembly lines in Detroit. All …
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is trying to partner with local governments to dispose of more than 10,000 flooded vehicles collected after the 2005 hurricane season. Still, the project will not be completed before Louisiana begins bearing at least …
Louisiana residents whose homes or businesses sustained damage in the Oct. 16, 2006, storm have until Jan. 2, 2006, to apply for Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance. Two major storms dumped more than 20 inches of rain in parts of …
Louisiana gained 1,400 nonfarm jobs in November 2006 and 59,900 jobs over the year, according to the Louisiana Department of Labor. The November 2006 nonfarm job gains were repeated in every Metropolitan Statistical Area in the state. The unemployment rate …
Reinsurance rates for the property casualty industry are falling or flat, except for insurers with major property wind exposure along the Gulf and East Coasts in the U.S., whose rates are still rising. That is one key finding from an …
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has returned a $25,000 donation for his inauguration that came from a Fort Lauderdale law firm with connections to the insurance industry. Crist spokeswoman Erin Isaac said the money was returned because it was given too …
Hurricane Katrina recovery remains near the top of Gov. Haley Barbour’s agenda as Mississippi lawmakers begin their 2007 session on Tuesday. The governor says he’s waiting to hear back from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on his …
