Brown & Brown Inc. acquired the assets of Debock & Muth Insurance Agency Inc., of Stockton, Calif. Debock & Muth Insurance Agency Inc., with annualized revenues of approximately $1.7 million, focuses on property and casualty insurance for individuals and businesses …
How do you rank your relationships with regional and national property/casualty insurers? How do their services compare? How would you rate underwriter knowledge, experience and stability for regional and national insurers? In this exclusive survey for independent insurance agents and …
A dispute over $6,400 in damage to a Maryland townhouse led to an unexpected court decision that has reversed 26 years of standard industry practice, and left insurers, agents, lawmakers and condominium associations unclear as to who pays when individual …
Farmington HIlls, Mich.-based managing general agency Burns & Wilcox recently introduced a new product series– Green Impact– that targets environment-friendly home and business risks. The Green Impact products include coverage for: – Contractors, both residential and commercial, who specialize in …
Experts on wildlife, public health and food safety from five states are meeting in Minnesota this week to talk about lead fragments in deer shot by hunters. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is hosting a meeting tomorrow, June 4, …
More than 3,000 residents of Lafayette, La., were evacuated May 17, 2008, when a train derailed, spilling 10,000 gallons of hydrochloric acid. The Associated Press reported that the wreck spread a toxic cloud over Lafayette, in the heart of Cajun …
A federal appeals court is scheduled to hear arguments in a lawsuit brought by a Brandon, Mississippi nursing home that contends its insurer has no legal grounds to back out of defending it in a wrongful death case. The insurer, …
A district judge in Oklahoma has turned over handling of the tax-evasion case of former Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher to the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office. Since the venue where Fisher has been charged is Tulsa County, it will be …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-” of Bermuda-based Through Transport Mutual Insurance Association Limited (TTB) and its wholly owned subsidiary, the UK-based TT Club Mutual Insurance …
Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced four of its member agencies, Bigham-Kliewer-Chapman-Watts, Bryan Insurance, Pierson & Fendley and Weatherby-Eisenrich, were selected to participated in the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA) “Best Practices” Study Group. …
