Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. in Bermuda has appointed John Worth as group chief financial officer of the company, effective Nov. 1. He will be based in London, reporting directly to Chris O’Kane, Aspen’s chief executive officer, and join Aspen’s group …
A federal judge has dismissed part of The Velvet Underground’s lawsuit accusing the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts of violating its rights to an iconic banana image used on the rock band’s best-known album. While Velvet Underground’s trademark …
Insurance rates continued to rise in the third quarter for both businesses and individual customers, extending the pricing power that developed late last year, insurer Travelers Cos. Inc. said on Tuesday. In a slide presentation prepared for a Barclays financial …
Patriot National Insurance Group, a provider of workers’ compensation coverage, has announced its subsidiary Guarantee Insurance Co. is now licensed to write workers’ compensation insurance in Oregon and South Dakota. The addition of the recent states expands Guarantee’s presence in …
Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE), the member-owned property/casualty insurer of high-value homes and property, has expanded its appetite to insure members’ watercraft, which will be served by a new automated quoting and policy issuance. PURE’s watercraft coverage is offered across …
A new law in Alabama requires motorists convicted of drunken driving to install ignition interlocks on their vehicles, although police have questions about how that law will be enforced. The new requirement, which took effect Sept. 1, applies to convicted …
Tennessee residents needing to renew or replace their driver’s licenses could be using self-service kiosks by November. The Commercial Appeal reported that people could be heading to such places as libraries, police precincts and county clerk’s offices to use the …
The University of Louisiana-Monroe College of Business has been awarded a research contract from the Louisiana Department of Insurance to study and provide support for proposed legislative insurance reforms. The News-Star reports the research is designed to provide support for …
Brent Howell has been named vice president and account executive of Austin, Texas-based Watkins Insurance Group’s Employee and Group Benefits Department. Howell will lead Watkins’ Benefits department, which offers employee and group benefits as well as individual life and health …
The 70,000 surviving firefighters, police officers and other first responders who raced to the World Trade Center after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 will be entitled to free monitoring and treatment for some 50 forms of cancer. The National …
