Farmers Insurance is introducing the company’s first rideshare coverage endorsement in Colorado. The product is designed to provide drivers with the insurance coverage specified in Colorado’s new ridesharing law. Part of the new law includes a provision requiring rideshare drivers …
Norton Insurance Agency, a division of Norton Insurance Financial in Cumberland, Maine, announced that it has acquired the Brennan Insurance Agency of Winthrop, Maine. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Norton Insurance Agency said it has made a strategic …
Business interruption (BI) and supply chain, natural catastrophes and fire/explosion are the major risks that occupy the attention of companies at the start of 2015, according to the fourth annual “Allianz Risk Barometer 2015.” The Risk Barometer details the top …
Officials expect a Michigan testing site for connected and driverless cars that will simulate a cityscape to be operational this spring. Called “M City,” the 32-acre site is taking shape on the University of Michigan’s North Campus in Ann Arbor. …
Insurance broker Southwest Risk LP has added Ryan Taylor and Wade Wrobel in Dallas as brokers with a focus on transportation, energy and hospitality. Taylor is a native of the DFW Metroplex. Most recently, he served as senior underwriter/broker for …
Houston police are looking for thieves who crashed a truck into a store and stole an ATM but apparently left behind a cellphone while fleeing. Officials say a convenience store clerk escaped injury in the theft early on Jan. 14. …
A county sheriff says at least 10 people are dead after a bus carrying state prisoners skidded off an icy highway overpass in West Texas, slid down an embankment and collided with a train. Ector County Sheriff Mark Donaldson says …
Michael Lahn has joined OneBeacon Surety Group as senior vice president of the Southwest region, which includes Arizona, Southern California, Hawaii, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah. Lahn has more than 20 years of surety business experience in positions of increasing …
Appleton, Wis.-based SECURA Insurance promoted Dominick Mongarella to director–risk management, effective Jan. 14, 2015. Mongarella will lead the company’s risk management team and is responsible for enhancing risk management services, and leveraging the knowledge and strengths of his team to …
Prosecutors in Minnesota have accused a woman of defrauding an insurance company of $2 million in her ex-husband’s staged death and her son is accused of helping cover up the scheme. Irina Vorotinov, 47, is charged with one count of …
