The London-based ACE European Group has announced three significant management and organizational changes with immediate effect as follows: Richard Pryce, currently President of ACE Global Markets (AGM), ACE’s International and Specialty business, will assume additional responsibility for ACE’s UK Property …
Professional Program Insurance Brokerage has added a Tanning Salon program to its self rating Tattoo, Body Piercing, Laser and quick quoting Medispa programs. PPIB’s program allows brokers the option to self-rate tanning salons to eliminate turnaround time. The program is …
North Hollywood, CA – The key to success using internet insurance leads rests with the follow-up. The feedback from the agents with best conversion ratios on internet insurance leads shows that it often takes up to 5 attempts to contact …
Houston-based Markel Global Marine & Energy Inc. (MGME) has launched a new division, Onshore Energy Property, the company announced. Established Nov. 1, 2006, this new division will handle onshore property, builder’s risk and time element coverage on petroleum, gas, petrochemical, …
Windsor, Conn.-based AIX Group Inc. announced a new program to provide automobile physical damage coverage to commercial trucking operations. This program will be targeting operations with above average loss experience and fleets between five and 75 units. Commercial light, medium, …
About five months after Chicago restaurants were ordered to stop selling foie gras, the city has yet to levy its first fine. While some pricey restaurants around the city have taken the goose or duck liver delicacy off their menus, …
California Governor is hoping to develop a plan to extend health care to 6.5 million uninsured Californians, but to do so, he will have to find common ground between groups that often are at odds. Union leaders quickly balked at …
Ohio workers injured while on jobs they obtained through welfare work-relief programs could see benefits increased following a decision by the Ohio state’s new attorney general not to appeal a court decision that supported the workers. Ohio Attorney General Marc …
Senators from the Dakotas are pushing for a permanent program to pay farmers and ranchers who have suffered devastating crop losses. North Dakota Sens. Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad, both Democrats, and South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune have co-sponsored …
The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that federal aid has been made available to supplement state and local response efforts in Colorado for those struck by struck by record snow during …
