Ascension Insurance Inc. has acquired transportation and trucking specialist Transure Services Inc., located in Whitsett, North Carolina. Transure’s brokerage platform is augmented by an in-house wholesale operation, with proprietary transportation product offerings and underwriting authority. This transaction strengthens Ascension’s existing …
Barack Obama wanted to change American health-care as we know it. And he is, in ways that go far beyond the goals of the Affordable Care Act. For weeks, headlines have cataloged the upheaval at private employers: UPS dropping coverage …
The Obama administration will announce measures to reassure Americans about the privacy and security of the information they submit when they sign up for insurance under President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, officials said on Wednesday. The administration plans to …
Federal regulators may miss important threats to the financial stability of U.S. insurers by focusing on bank risks, MetLife Inc. Chief Financial Officer John Hele said. “Bank rules overlook key insurance risks,” Hele said today at a conference in New …
City of Hope’s Spirit of Life Gala on Oct. 26 is honoring Greg Case, president and CEO of Aon plc. The annual charity event this year is being held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, and includes dinner, …
European Union countries will agree next month to talks with China on a pact making it easier to do business, possibly paving the way for a free-trade deal between two of the world’s biggest markets, EU officials said on Tuesday. …
Britain’s financial regulator is investigating whether two life insurance companies breached new rules that ban the offering of commissions to financial advisers for selling their products. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said on Wednesday it had referred two unnamed firms …
Hurricane Manuel formed off of Mexico’s Pacific coast, promising to bring new flooding as the nation struggles to clean up after two storms that killed at least 80 people and trapped thousands of tourists in the resort city of Acapulco. …
Drawing off the massive flooding in Colorado and Naval shipyard shootings in Washington, D.C., the second in a series of webinars being put on for National Preparedness Month focused on unforeseen crises as examples of the need for organizations to …
The highest court in Massachusetts upheld a $20.6 million jury award on Sept. 13 for the family of a woman who died after hitting her head on a concrete pool deck when an inflatable slide partially collapsed. A jury awarded …
