January 30, 2013
The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) Texas-Southeast division is hosting a black tie benefit gala, Lone Star Legends, at the Hilton Anatole – Chantilly Ballroom, in Dallas, on Feb. 21. The keynote speaker of Lone Star Legends is Richard Fisher, …
January 30, 2013
While some states have fought President Barack Obama’s federal health care overhaul, known as the Affordable Care Act, Oregon has embraced it. The law requires every state to have a new health insurance marketplace called an exchange. Oregon’s Legislature created …
January 30, 2013
In the gently rolling hills of Oklahoma ranch country is a place that has seen more than its share of destructive weather – tornadoes, ice storms and floods, year after year, for half of the last decade. In fact, Caddo …
January 30, 2013
The director of a northeast Kansas health insurance consulting company is running for next year’s Republican nomination for state insurance commissioner. Beverly Gossage, of Eudora, announced her candidacy in a statement on Jan. 28. Gossage describes herself as a conservative …
January 30, 2013
Cross Insurance, a subsidiary of Maine-based Cross Financial Corp., and one of the largest independent insurance agencies in New England, recently acquired Skillings Shaw & Associates, a Lewiston, Maine-based bond specialty agency providing fidelity and surety bonds.Under terms of the …
January 30, 2013
Bel Air, Md.-based Palumbo Insurance Associates appointed Elio Scaccio as account executive.Scaccio brings with him over 10 years of experience in the insurance industry with background in a wide range in personal, commercial, life, and supplemental health insurance services.
January 30, 2013
A public adjusting firm is threatening to sue a Florida blogger who claims the adjusting firm is using a name that makes it sound like it is a government agency in soliciting business from homeowners insured by the state’s property …
January 30, 2013
Twice as many homes and businesses in and near New York City would be in flood zones under new maps that may force more property-owners to buy flood insurance, complicate post-Superstorm Sandy rebuilding for some and confront others with the …
January 30, 2013
To Sue Bonham, it was as if the world were coming to an end: A wall of flame had suddenly engulfed her West Virginia neighborhood. Amid a deafening roar, objects began crashing through her ceiling. Her home began melting around …
January 30, 2013
W.R. Berkley Corp. said its 2012 fourth quarter net profit was $165.49 million, up 41.4 percent compared to the same period in 2011 when it had $117.03 million profit. For the full-year 2012, the Greenwich, Conn.-based commercial lines insurer reported …