March 12, 2010
Thousands of workers who suffered health problems after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 have reached a settlement worth up to $657.5 million with an insurer representing the city of New York, city officials and lawyers said Thursday. Thousands of …
March 12, 2010
Allstate will be refund $428,355 to 2,445 Delaware policyholders who had not received discounts on their automobile insurance premiums to which they were lawfully entitled, the state’s insurance commissioner said. All of the affected policyholders had successfully completed Department of …
March 12, 2010
Midlands Management Corp., an operating subsidiary of PMA Capital Corp., has started a new program with data breach coverage. It is designed for clients in industries that are data intensive and required to comply with stringent regulations and laws governing …
March 12, 2010
American E&S (AES) Insurance Brokers has designed an exclusive Bank Package Program that will provide bankers’ professional liability, directors and officers, and bond coverage for financial institutions nationwide. AES designed this facility for community banks, but there are no qualification …
March 12, 2010
To the 77 percent of independent insurance agencies that don’t have a social media presence, creating a profile and trying to form “friendships” via a computer can be daunting. Once an agency gets online, however, tools such as blogs, Facebook, …
March 12, 2010
Impact Risk Solutions, the brokerage arm of CHS insurance subsidiary, Ag States Group, has added Edward Carey and Matthew Buss to its risk management team. Carey and Buss will work out of the company’s Houston office. Carey assumes the position …
March 12, 2010
Hiscox has launched a Houses of Worship coverage, a new offering through its Special Protection Solution program. The product addresses risks faced by religious institutions within the United States and abroad with no country exclusions. The Houses of Worship Special …
March 11, 2010
Sebastian Pinera’s inauguration as Chile’s new president was accompanied by a blunt reminder of the peril the country faces from earthquakes as two large aftershocks struck just before the ceremony According to a preliminary analysis from Risk Management Solutions a …
March 11, 2010
Nebraska’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.6 percent in January, still less than half the national rate of 9.7 percent, state officials said in a report issued March 10. The state said the preliminary December rate of 4.7 percent reported …
March 11, 2010
A suburban Pittsburgh couple is suing Target, claiming their daughter sustained a brain injury when a toy box lid fell on her. Eric and Laura Surman, of Cranberry, claim 2-year-old Camryn Surman had her air supply cut off when the …