Chartis has expanded access of the advanced disaster preparedness and post-hurricane resources of its Private Client Group’s Hurricane Protection Unit to homeowners in the Massachusetts counties of Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket. Private Client Group’s Hurricane Protection Unit assists policyholders with …
Professional Liability Insurance Services, Inc. is the underwriting facility for the longest-running business interruption and extra expense coverage, for food borne illness, accidental contamination, malicious contamination and products extortion – Trade Name Restoration (TNR)®. Restaurants and hospitality entities face unique …
U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. has named Julie Sylim a vice president and branch manager for the company’s Oakland, Calif., office. Julie has mroe than 20 years of insurance experience, most recently in the wholesale arena. She most recently was …
A federal judge has dismissed a challenge to the new Oregon workplace meetings law which prohibits employers from firing workers who refuse to attend meetings to discuss politics, religion or union organizing. U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman dismissed a lawsuit …
Stagnant and declining agency salaries have many agency employees singing the blues, and most agents don’t expect things to change, at least not anytime soon. While independent agency salaries maintained or decreased slightly in 2009, employee morale seems to be …
Albert Malasig has joined the property/casualty arm of Suhr Risk Services of California. With more than 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, and an emphasis in risk management for middle market businesses, Malasig’s career has included consulting and …
Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that former Ohio insurance agent Damon Bryan of Medina has been sentenced to seven years in prison by Judge Christopher Collier of the Medina County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty …
Auto thefts in Arizona are declining with law enforcement and insurance industry partnerships to reduce crime and losses. Recent national data from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) shows the Tucson and Phoenix areas, ranked in the top 10 areas …
After the devastating back-to-back blows of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Louisiana’s leaders created a far-reaching state bureaucracy to manage and devise multibillion dollar recovery plans for wrecked southern parishes. More than four years later, part of that bureaucracy, the Louisiana …
A national insurance group says two apparent staged car wreck rings found by authorities in the Oklahoma City metro is part of a nationwide trend. The National Insurance Crime Bureau says the number of schemes involving staged wrecks and false …
