Monthly Archives: <span>July 2009</span>

Professional Program Insurance Brokerage Enhances Massage Program

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 …

Continental Risk Insurance Offers Taxi Liability Market

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 …

Weston Elected President of Georgia Agents

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 …

Beloten to Head New York Workers’ Comp Board

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 …

New York Sees Increase in Insurance Fraud Convictions

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 …

Former Texas Insurance Company Owners Buy Waco Tribune-Herald

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 …

Nevada To Host First Annual Insurance Industry Day

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 …

Survey: Majority of Consumers Avoid Companies That Expose Their Data

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. …

Ohio Casualty Introduces Commercial Fleet Management System

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 …

Missouri Tort Victims Receive Millions from Workers’ Comp Division

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 …