Zurich has expanded its relationship with program administrator Artex Risk Solutions, Inc. to offer workers’ compensation insurance to temporary staffing companies, focusing on clerical, professional, medical professional and light industrial markets. Artex has been a workers’ compensation program administrator with …
Chicago-based Hub International Ltd. announced that its Transportation Insurance operating unit has acquired the retail book of business from Maple Leaf Insurance Agency Inc., a Bremerton, Wash.-based brokerage firm that serves trucking companies throughout the United States. Terms of the …
Gary Petrosino, executive vice president of Chubb & Son, has been appointed president of City of Hope’s National Insurance Industry Council (NIIC) group. Petrosino is an insurance executive with more than 30 years experience in the industry. He has been …
Los Angeles, 13 July 2010. Joseph Peloso, Jr. has joined GJS Re in Chicago as Assistant Vice President effective July 6, 2010. Peloso is responsible for producing and placing specialty reinsurance products as well as structuring insurance programs on behalf …
Arrowhead Wholesale Insurance Services located in San Diego has named Michelle Flores the company’s Worker’s Compensation Division leader and assistant vice president. Flores previously held underwriting positions at three other companies in San Diego. Her duties will include managing the …
Shifty eyes long have been thought to signify a person’s problem telling the truth. Now a group of University of Utah researchers are taking that old adage to a new level. Educational psychologists John Kircher, Doug Hacker, Anne Cook, Dan …
EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property/casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage, has added Jim Gillette as a principal and senior vice president in its Los Angeles office. His responsibilities will include expanding the company’s presence in Los Angeles …
Property owners who hire independent contractors are not vicariously liable for on-the-job injuries to the contractor’s employees, the California Supreme Court has ruled. The state high court extended the decision in Privette v. Superior Court (Privette doctrine) and said those …
Workers who “blow the whistle” on prohibited or unlawful practices in the workplace as well as safety and health discrimination play an important role in assuring compliance with federal laws, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Consequently, …
Markel Programs has partnered with ProSurance Group, Inc., a managing general agency, to offer a new, monoline commercial Fidelity insurance program. Commercial crime coverage is currently available countrywide on an open-brokerage basis. Fidelity insurance for financial institutions will be launched …
