December 2, 2013
Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, recently announced promotions within the firm’s Northeast regional operations. Jennifer Bell and John Moskal will assume new roles as Dan D’Alessandro, Northeast regional leader and Pittsburgh resident managing director, …
December 2, 2013
Chicago-based national wholesale insurance broker R-T Specialty said it has completed its merger with another wholesale broker Westrope, based in Kansas City, Missouri. The deal was first announced Nov. 1. Terms were not disclosed. Westrope’s business is concentrated in the …
December 2, 2013
Although a party bus driver insists she properly latched a door from which a Kansas woman fell to her death, Kansas Highway Patrol troopers said in an investigative report released this week they doubted that was possible. Jamie Frecks, 26, …
December 2, 2013
Sioux Falls, S.D., police are warning residents about an increase in the number of vehicle thefts in the last month. The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports that most of the thefts occurred after residents had started their vehicles to warm …
December 2, 2013
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued safety citations against two southwest Ohio companies after the deaths of workers. OSHA’s area director in Cincinnati said this week that Central Ready Mix LLC was cited for 10 alleged safety …
December 2, 2013
A cut-rate building contractor will face murder charges for a botched demolition in downtown Philadelphia that killed six people inside an adjacent store, officials announced last week. Prosecutors called Griffin Campbell “the center of culpability” for the June collapse, and …
December 2, 2013
Louisiana’s Department of Insurance has joined a lawsuit filed by Mississippi against the federal government to try to block rates from increasing Oct. 1 in the National Flood Insurance Program. Commissioner Jim Donelon said that the department had filed an …
December 2, 2013
Does your insurance organization support the community? What organizations do you support? Over the years, Insurance Journal has discovered numerous stories of how agents, brokers, wholesalers and insurers support their community. Our Dec. 16 issue of Insurance Journal magazine will …
December 2, 2013
The federal government has approved funding to start a $50 million flood-mitigation project along the Queens waterfront to better protect Howard Beach against rising sea levels and storm surges similar to those that caused extensive damage during Superstorm Sandy, N.Y. …
December 2, 2013
A.M. Best has assigned SCF Arizona and its wholly-owned subsidiaries an A- (Excellent) XII with a “stable outlook” rating. The company’s ratings are an indication of its “solid risk-adjusted capitalization, improving operating performance and prominence within the Arizona workers’ compensation …