An administrative law judge in North Dakota has made permanent a cease and desist order issued by Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm against insurance producer Frederick Paul Skoda, formerly of Fargo, N.D., now of Detroit Lakes, Minn. The Dec. 26, 2013, …
New Jersey officials say they dispersed just 25 percent of the state’s first large allocation of federal Superstorm Sandy aid in the first 11 months. That is a finding of a quarterly state report released last week on the dozens …
Vermont Mutual Insurance Group in Montpelier, Vt., has appointed Mark J. McDonnell as senior vice president.Most recently, McDonnell was vice president of personal lines sales for Tower Group Companies, where he also served as president of Adirondack AIF, LLC and …
Investigators looking into why eight circus acrobats plummeted to the ground during an aerial hair-hanging stunt in Providence, R.I., have found that a clamp snapped, a public safety official said Monday. “We have identified a clamp that snapped that held …
Declaration Brokerage, LLC, a Mahwah, N.J.-based insurance agency, has acquired the business of RBLA of PA, a Stroudsburg, Penn.-based agency that offers commercial and personal lines coverages. Declaration Brokerage was formed last September with a growth strategy of acquiring Northeastern …
PartnerOne Environmental has partnered with ACE Westchester Environmental to offer PartnerOne Energy Select, a new packaged insurance product specifically for environmental energy contractors and consultants. PartnerOne Energy Select has been designed for insureds that provide a range of support operations …
XL Group has added a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) insurance division to its Financial Lines business and appointed Tim Allen to head the business line. The signs for 2014 are that M&A activity is on the rise. And, according to …
With gas prices close to $4 per gallon, Terre Haute resident Russell Moffatt had been happy to park his gas-guzzling pickup truck in favor of a fuel efficient mo-ped that he could ride to work. That is, until someone stole …
Members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation are asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency and President Barack Obama to issue additional disaster declarations for areas of Arkansas hit hard by last week’s tornadoes and flooding. Arkansas’ two U.S. senators and four congressmen …
New Berlin, Wis.-based risk management, insurance and business advisory firm, HNI, reported a number of personnel changes. Teresa Bundy, Pat Madden and Brittany Swinton have been hired as account managers, and Dominique Beaudin has been added as director of information …
