June 21, 2007
J.M. Wilson recently announced the addition of Ted Darbor, CIC, CPCU, as the company’s transportation manager and the promotion of Roxanne Barry, CIC, CISR, to Property Casualty manager. Both will be located in the Portage, Mich. office. Darbor comes to …
June 21, 2007
The fallout from the management scandal at Rhode Island workers’ compensation insurer Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. continued this week, even as the insurer unveiled its board of directors. Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri yesterday withdrew the renomination of Adelita …
June 21, 2007
Fire officials have ruled a fire that damaged a Logan County, W. Va., church as arson. There are no suspects at this time in the fire at the Kistler Freewill Baptist Church, Kim O’Brien, spokeswoman for the state Fire Marshal’s …
June 21, 2007
An insurance industry-financed group that didn’t even exist until the final weeks of the Legislature’s session plowed just shy of $1 million into an aggressive lobbying campaign. It turned out to be money well spent: Lawmakers went home without making …
June 21, 2007
Northern Kentucky residents are being alerted that an Erlanger business owner is under investigation for selling bogus auto insurance policies, according to Kentucky’s Insurance Commissioner. The Kentucky Office of Insurance said Michael Fleckinger of Amtrek Two Insurance Co. has marketed …
June 21, 2007
New Jersey officials’ interpretation of a new state law meant to thwart identity theft goes further than lawmakers intended and would impose impractical requirement upon insurance companies, according to an industry group. The New Jersey Consumer Affairs Division proposed regulations …
June 21, 2007
New Jersey-based American Safety Insurance Services, Inc. said it has acquired a team of underwriters and entered the surplus lines property market, offering both monoline property and commercial multi-peril coverage. Targeted classes of business include habitational risks, such as apartments, …
June 21, 2007
Eastern Alliance Insurance Co. reports it has received regulatory approval to write workers’ compensation business in the four southeastern states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. The company said it plans to open a full-service office in North …
June 21, 2007
A former Wal-Mart pharmacist who claimed she was fired after asking to be paid the same as her male colleagues won a nearly $2 million award against the retail giant this week in Massachusetts. A Berkshire Superior Court jury concluded …
June 21, 2007
A computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks supports a federal agency’s findings that the initial impact from the hijacked airplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that the weakened towers collapsed under their own weight. The two-year …