July 20, 2009
Professional Program Insurance Brokerage of Novato, Calif., has enhanced its massage program by offering an option to write the professional and general liability on an occurrence form. Sexual abuse coverage can be written with limits up to $1 million. Hot …
July 20, 2009
Continental Risk Insurance Services Inc. of Lodi, Calif., can now place taxi liability anywhere from 1 taxi to large fleets. Limits range from $10,000 up to $1 million. Coverage is provided by “A” XIII rated admitted and non-admitted carriers in …
July 20, 2009
Will Weston, vice president and principal of Blanchard & Calhoun Insurance Agency in Augusta, was elected president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia, Inc. (IIAG) during the association’s recent annual meeting. Weston has been a member of IIAG’s Executive …
July 17, 2009
Robert E. Beloten has been named chairman of the New York Workers’ Compensation Board. He replaces Zachary Weiss, who announced his resignation last month. Beloten was named to the board in May after having been a workers’ compensation judge from …
July 17, 2009
The number of insurance fraud arrests in New York was down very slightly in the first half of the year, but conviction are up, according to a newly updated fraud report by the state’s insurance department. The New York Insurance …
July 17, 2009
The Waco Tribune-Herald will be under local ownership for the first time in 33 years. Longtime Waco, Texas, insurance businessman and civic leader Clifton Robinson and his son, Gordon Robinson, are buying the 117-year-old newspaper from Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises. The …
July 17, 2009
Nevada’s Division of Insurance will be hosting its first ever Insurance Industry Day on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, at the Harveys Lake Tahoe Resort. The event was created “to foster a better partnership between the Division and its stakeholders, and …
July 17, 2009
More than 70 percent of consumers surveyed said they would no longer do business with a company that exposed their sensitive, personal information as result of a data security breach, according to research conducted for Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Identity Theft 911. …
July 17, 2009
Fairfield, Ohio-based Ohio Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, has introduced Onboard Advisor, a fleet management system that helps companies increase commercial fleet safety and productivity, save on commercial auto insurance premiums and more. The company said Onboard …
July 17, 2009
The Missouri Labor Department’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) recently announced it has issued more than $2.4 million from the Tort Victims’ Compensation Fund to 62 tort victims who filed claims in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Tort victims are individuals …