Protx Risk Management LLC, a managing general agency that focuses on professional liability insurance, has introduced a suite of professional liability products for U.S. community banks, including directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, bankers professional liability including …
A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has downgraded the issuer credit ratings (ICR) to “a” from “a+” and affirmed the financial strength ratings (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) of UK-based QBE Insurance (Europe) Limited and QBE Re (Europe) Limited, as …
Authorities in north Arkansas say a dock collapse on Lake Norfork does not pose an immediate threat of contamination to the lake. Henderson Fire Chief Rodney May says the weight of snow and ice caused the roof of a boat …
Konen Insurance of Aurora, Ill., and Dasco Insurance Agency of Northbrook are now partners in Keystone Insurers Group. The addition of the two agencies increases to four the number of Keystone partners in the state since the end of October. …
North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency is considering suing a company that failed to complete a $17 million computer system overhaul. Workforce Safety and Insurance hired Chicago-based Aon eSolutions in 2007. The software system upgrade that was to save the agency …
A Wisconsin appeals court says manure isn’t a pollutant as defined in an insurance policy. The case began in 2011 when the state Department of Natural Resources notified West Bend dairy farmer Robert Falk that manure spread on his fields …
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is reminding property insurance policyholders that the clock is ticking on the deadline to claim a rebate for the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens) assessment. After Dec. 31, 2013, policyholders will no longer be able …
Marijuana business license applications keep rolling in in Washington. The state Liquor Control Board says it has received 1,696 applications from people seeking permission to grow, process or sell cannabis under the new recreational marijuana law. The application window opened …
Lawyers say a King County, Wash. jury has awarded $50 million to a Burien couple whose son was born with profound mental and physical disabilities after a hospital and lab failed to detect his genetic abnormalities. Brock and Rhea Wuth …
A weeklong blast of sub-freezing temperatures across California has damaged the state’s $2 billion citrus crop, but it will take several weeks before the extent of the loss is quantified, agricultural industry officials said on Wednesday. The National Weather Service …
