The Bermuda-based Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. announced the appointment of Glenn Burles as senior executive officer of Argo Re (DIFC) and the promotion of Kevin Williams to head of claims for Argo Group’s international insurance operations. Burles is based …
The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has proposed rules relating to federal health insurance exchange navigators. The rules propose criminal background checks, privacy training, proof of identity and evidence of financial responsibility for individuals providing the navigator assistance. Commissioner of …
Carrollton, Texas-based Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC), a provider of agency marketing, rating and management software and services, announced that AgentCon, its user group conference, will be held for the first time on April 15-16, 2014, at the Omni Mandalay Hotel …
It’s become a predictable routine at Matt Pryor’s insurance agency: An earthquake rumbles through Oklahoma, rattling dishes and nerves. Then the phones light up with calls and text messages from desperate residents asking if it’s too late to buy a …
A coalition of medical organizations and health care advocates has sued Missouri over its requirement that only state-licensed counselors can serve as navigators in a program aimed at helping consumers sign up for coverage under the new online health insurance …
Bernard Turi, senior vice president, director of risk and reinsurance of Utica Mutual Insurance Company (a member company of the Utica National Insurance Group) was elected chair of the New York Insurance Association (NYIA) at the association’s annual meeting on …
JLT Towner Insurance Management (USA), LLC, announced its acquisition of Charter Risk Management Services, LLC, a Connecticut captive management company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Under the transaction, Thomas F.X. Hodson, Charter’s president and chief executive officer, will …
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has a wholly owned insurance subsidiary, a captive insurer called the First Mutual Transportation Assurance Company (FMTAC), that will provide part of the coverages for liability and property losses stemming from the Dec. 1 …
The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference recommended that the college basketball player who hit a half-court shot for $20,000 at an Oklahoma City Thunder game be allowed to use the money toward his tuition. Cameron Rodriguez, a 23-year-old forward at Southwestern …
Donald Soderberg has been named administrator of Nevada’s Division of Industrial Relations. Soderberg is based out of the Las Vegas office and will oversee the division’s statewide operations, which encompasses five units to address worker safety: workers’ compensation; mine safety …
