Giant insurance broker Marsh says its main brokerage unit will not accept contingent commissions on business for U.S. or Canadian clients but its Marsh & McLennan Agency and its affinity and personal lines business units will. The decision to not …
C.V Starr & Company (California), a subsidiary of New York-based C.V. Starr & Co. Inc., has appointed Andrew (Andy) Robinson chief underwriting officer. Robinson has nearly 30 years industry experience and spent 13 years in various management positions at AIG …
Thomas E. Riley has been promoted to chief acquisitions officer for Brown & Brown Inc. and will assume responsibility for mergers and acquisitions activity of the company and its subsidiaries, and for the supervision of the personnel within the company …
Acting Commissioner Announced Neal T. Gooch has been appointed as acting insurance commissioner of the Utah Insurance Department. Governor Gary R. Herbert said the appointment would extend “until the selection of a permanent Commissioner is made.” Former Commissioner D. Kent …
Zurich has launched Zurich Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) HealthCheck Tool to help provide mid-size to large technology companies with a realistic check of their current ERM preparedness. ERM can help to uncover and manage a company’s business challenges, including operations …
The Utah Association of Independent Insurance Agents is seeking applicants for a new executive director. After 23-plus years with UAIIA, Steve Baugh will be stepping down due to health issues. Resumes for the executive director position will be accepted between …
In two separate decisions, the Supreme Court of Ohio upheld as constitutional a 2005 state law that limits the ability of workers who are injured on the job to sue their employers for a “workplace intentional tort” in addition to …
Markel Corporation promoted Timberlee Tamraz Grove to chief operating officer of Markel Specialty. In addition to her new role, she will remain president of Markel American Insurance Company in Pewaukee, Wis. As COO, Grove will oversee the operations of Markel …
Evans Ewan & Brady Insurance Agency Inc. in Georgetown, Texas, has been named a Model Personal Lines Book of Business agency for 2009 by Central Insurance Company. A member of Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), this is the third …
Mediation efforts were unsuccessful March 22 between an elderly Fort Worth, Texas-area couple and the politically powerful Houston homebuilder who lost a $58 million judgment to them, the couple’s lawyers said. Van Shaw and Dan Hagood, attorneys for Robert and …
