Monthly Archives: <span>April 2011</span>

Texas Insurance Veteran Sees Opportunity in Growing Hispanic Market

With 30 years of industry experience under his belt, one Texas-based insurance executive decided it was time to open his own operation to serve the insurance needs of the growing Hispanic population. While Dallas-based Hispanic Affiliates General Agency (HAGA) recently …

K&K Insurance to Offer Higher Limits Via E-commerce Websites

K&K Insurance has made higher primary commercial general liability limits of up to $5M available for most of its risk purchasing group programs including dance schools; martial arts studios; exercise/fitness studios; fitness/personal training instructors; event planners; arts instructors; short term …

A Third of Large U.S. Firms Show Business Interruption From Japan Disaster

More than a quarter of large U.S. based businesses are experiencing disruptions to their supply chains or contingent business interruptions as a result of the March earthquake in Japan, says a new report. A new Greenwich Market Pulse study says …

American Collectors Enhances Collector Vehicle Coverage

American Collectors Insurance has broadened the availability of specialty collector vehicle insurance to vehicles of any year, make, and model, and also introduced several enhancements for collector vehicle insurance. The enhancements include: Any year/make/model of vehicle: Collector cars of any …

EPIC Honored as ‘Best Place to Work’

California-based EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property, casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage, has been recognized as a “Best Place to Work in the Bay Area” for the fourth consecutive year by a regional business journal. “Receiving this …

Wind and Rain Lash Indiana as Flood Threat Looms

The same storm system that spawned tornadoes that killed hundreds in the South dumped more rain April 28 on parts of Indiana already bracing for floods and toppled trees onto cars along a busy highway. No injuries were reported. Troopers …

Fentanyl Often Prescribed in Calif. Workers’ Comp

A CWCI Research Spotlight Report on the use of fentanyl – the most potent Schedule II opioid – in California workers’ comp finds that More than 1 out of every 5 injured workers in California who are prescribed Schedule II …

Florida Senate Passes Property Insurance Overhaul

The Florida Senate has passed a property insurance overhaul aimed at creating more competition in the private marketplace and also cut down on fraudulent sinkhole claims. The measure (SB 408) passed on a 25-12 vote after some 50 minutes of …

Louisiana Insurance Agent Gets Prison in Fraud Case

A 67-year-old Plaquemine, La., insurance agent has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for mail fraud that cost several of his insurance clients nearly $1.4 million. U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson, of Baton Rouge, ordered …

Ohio Program Finds Lost Life Insurance for Hundreds

An Ohio program begun a little over a year and a-half ago has tracked down nearly 450 lost life insurance policies, typically for families of Ohioans who have died. The successes were out of more than 680 valid requests submitted …