June 3, 2010
Insurance Journal is on the search for leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report. Top Overall Independent Agencies, Top Commercial Lines Independent Agencies, Top Personal Lines Independent Agencies, and …
June 3, 2010
The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) and Tarrant County College have initiated the Insurance Representative Certificate (IRC) program. The self-study, self-paced virtual program prepares individuals for the Texas General Lines Property and Casualty license exam, and provides the industry …
June 3, 2010
A New Jersey jury has awarded $7.2 million to a doctor who sued the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey after she fell and broke her elbow at a North Jersey rail station. Lawyers for Soma Mandal of …
June 3, 2010
A jury says the New Hampshire Transportation Department was not responsible for a 2007 Interstate 93 crash that killed a 6-year-old boy. A jury in Rockingham Superior Court returned the verdict following a civil trial. A Canadian trucking company sued …
June 3, 2010
Gaylord Entertainment Co. says it expects the total remediation and rebuild cost for its properties in Nashville, Tennessee damaged by early May’s record flooding to be between $215 million and $225 million. The costs include approximately $165 to $172 million …
June 3, 2010
Pennsylvania-based GUARD Insurance Group Chief Executive Officer Sy Foguel has assumed the role of company president and former chief administrative officer Carl Witkowski was promoted to chief operating officer. The shift in management roles follows the retirement of GUARD co-founders …
June 3, 2010
Tropical Cyclone Phet roared toward the coast of Oman and was expected to make landfall late on Thursday at the earliest before barreling toward the oil-exporting Gulf Arab state’s LNG facilities. But Phet, a Category 4 storm with winds of …
June 3, 2010
The United Mine Workers of America are raising new concerns about the safety of a western Kentucky coal mine where two men were killed by a rock fall in April. Steve Earle, a regional vice president for UMWA, said miners …
June 3, 2010
An ethics activist is defending the State Ethics Commission’s decision to schedule a hearing involving GOP gubernatorial candidate and state Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine less than a month before the crowded primary contest in which he is a front-runner. George …
June 3, 2010
The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be even more active than feared, leading U.S. forecasters said Wednesday as they predicted 10 hurricanes, five of them major, with a 76 percent likelihood that a major hurricane would hit the U.S. coastline. …