January 7, 2008
Western National Mutual Insurance Co. recently announced that it has completed its merger with Farmers Home Mutual Insurance Company, effective December 31, 2007. The completed merger follows final approval by each company’s Board of Directors and policyholders, and final regulatory …
January 7, 2008
SAN DIEGO – January 7, 2008 – Sanford Elsass, President and CEO of Unit-Ter Group, a Georgia based MGU which provides general and professional liability insurance to the healthcare industry in 42 states, will be speaking on “Risk Retention Groups …
January 4, 2008
Montana State Auditor John Morrison is reminding all licensed property and casualty insurers doing business in the state that a new law recently went into effect to protect Montanans’ right to choose an auto body repair shop after an accident. …
January 4, 2008
Professional Program Insurance Brokerage, which specializes in the tattoo and body piercing, medispa, laser, permanent makeup, tanning, and spa marketplace, has announced a new inhouse excess facility. Excess limits are available up to $1 million/$1 million, requiring that the underlying …
January 4, 2008
Southern California homeowners still struggling to rebuild their lives after last fall’s wildfires are preparing for downpours that could bring more than a foot of rain to some mudslide-prone mountain canyons. A trio of rainstorms — possibly the most rain …
January 4, 2008
Oregon’s Department of Transportation Services (DMV) is alerting insurance producers that write towing companies of a new requirement for towers to maintain proof of insurance with the DMV. In 2007, the state Legislature passed Senate Bill 116, which regulates towing …
January 4, 2008
A woman serving probation for killing her newborn has been released from jail after another arrest in an insurance scam. Aimee Lee Weiss claimed she delivered a stillborn baby alone in 2001, then threw him in a canal. She was …
January 4, 2008
A large livestock auction barn in Fayetteville was destroyed by a fire early Wednesday morning but no people or animals suffered injuries. The Tennessee Livestock Producers Association — a service of the Tennessee Farm Bureau — owned the barn, which …
January 4, 2008
New Jersey auto insurance agents will have a lot easier time quoting and writing new policies under a bill signed yesterday by Gov. Jon S. Corzine. The bill, which had awaited his signature since last month, eliminates the so-called “three …
January 4, 2008
A fast-moving fire destroyed the sanctuary of a Spartanburg County, S.C. church, bringing down its steeple. The employees and construction crew inside escaped without injury when the Abner Creek Baptist Church caught fire Wednesday morning. Church members say the buildings …