August 10, 2012
This month, Connecticut is observing the four-year anniversary of the state’s adoption of tougher teen driving laws. And officials say the measures continue to put in check teen driver deaths. A series of high-profile crashes in 2007 triggered a campaign …
August 10, 2012
More than half of Arkansas is in exceptional drought status, which is the U.S. Drought Monitor’s most severe classification. The map, released Thursday, says the exceptional drought covers nearly all of northern and central Arkansas and stretches into the southwest …
August 10, 2012
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley has rejected in full arguments in a lawsuit by the insurance industry backers of California’s Proposition 33 and upheld the Attorney General’s Ballot Label as “Changes Law to Allow Auto Insurance Companies to Set …
August 10, 2012
Insurance Journal is once again searching for the best independent insurance agencies in the United States to work for and we hope you will consider nominating your agency today. You must be a current employee of the agency you are …
August 10, 2012
Megabus has agreed to pay $5.1 million to the family of a man who was struck by a bus as he crossed a downtown Chicago street in 2010. Wes Krueger of South Holland was in the crosswalk when the bus …
August 10, 2012
Lockton Dunning Benefits announced that Victor Wong has joined the Dallas-based health and welfare benefits practice’s actuarial consulting group as vice president and actuary. With more than nine years of actuarial experience, Victor has specialized in health benefits for the …
August 10, 2012
U.S. crop insurers have already paid out $822 million in indemnities this season, but it is still far too early to tell how large the industry’s losses will ultimately be, National Crop Insurance Services said on Friday. The trade group …
August 10, 2012
Advanced E & S Group has launched the Assessment Recovery Indemnity (ARI) program. ARI is a new insurance product underwritten by member companies of the AmTrust Group, designed to help condominium and homeowner associations reduce their exposure to delinquent unit …
August 10, 2012
JLT Facilities, Inc., part of the Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) Group, has established a non-standard lawyers professional liability program. Coverage is available nationwide and underwritten by JLT Facilities through an A.M Best “A” rated carrier. The non-standard program is for …
August 10, 2012
Because the duty to defend is one of the most important aspects of liability policies such as Commercial General Liability coverage, it is frequently the subject of litigation. One recent case from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals — GuideOne …