The National Association of Insurance Women has named Francie Stocking, chief operations officer of Western Risk Insurance, the 2009 Region VIII, NAIW Member of the Year. Stocking has been in the insurance industry for approximately eight years, all of which …
Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services, Workers’ Compensation Division, has proposed changes to the state’s medical fee schedules, which overall would increase payments to medical service providers and result in a corresponding cost increase for insurers, DCBS said. The …
MetLife Auto & Home announced the appointment of Madera, Calif., resident Rene Swan to the position of regional sales manager, overseeing the company’s growth plans in California’s Central Valley territory. Prior to joining MetLife Auto & Home, Swan worked for …
San Francisco-based insurance broker Woodruff-Sawyer & Co., has added Matt Gauen to the firm as vice president, account executive in the Southern California Office. Woodruff-Sawyer has been growing its operations in the region, having added Jim Lopiccolo as vice president …
Three northeast states have the lowest crime rate, while Nevada, Louisiana and South Carolina have the highest crime rate, according to a new study. New Hampshire (1) received the lowest crime rate ranking again this year, followed by Vermont (2) …
Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based insurer Narragansett Bay Insurance Co. has named Bob Khosropur as chief claims officer. Khosropur, who most recently served as vice president of claims for Privilege Underwrites, is a 22-year veteran of the insurance industry. At Privilege, he …
Since 1993, The American Contractors Agency (ACA) has provided specialty services, products and resources to thousands of professional contractors. HUNDREDS of contractors each month request GENERAL LIABILITY INSURANCE QUOTES from The ACA. Effective March 30, 2009, we have new territories …
It’s all in the family for Timothy Gaspar and the new Timothy Gaspar Insurance Services in Los Angeles. Gaspar built a book of property/casualty clients with another agency for five years before deciding he wanted to have more control over …
At first glance, it seems like Gina Russo’s new Las Vegas agency, Trenchant Insurance Co., has three strikes against it. First, Russo is a woman operating in a male-dominated industry. Second, she’s only 27 years old, although she has eight …
Jeff Turner had long harbored ideas on how to operate an independent insurance agency so when he and his business partners Tommy Saxon and Ryan Perry opened Bridge Insurance Partners in Dallas a little more than a year ago, they …
