Monthly Archives: <span>March 2015</span>

Last Year’s Fatalities Prompt New Safety Features at Austin’s SXSW

Snoop Dogg, J. Cole and TV on the Radio are on the schedule, but what’s really getting attention at this year’s South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, is safety. After a driver plowed through a barricade and into …

N.J. Man Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud Over Damage Done to Car

A New Jersey man has admitted that he sought more than $15,000 from his insurance company for damage done to his car before his policy took effect and for personal items he claimed were stolen. Derrick Smith of Newark, New …

Kaplansky Insurance Acquires North State Insurance in Massachusetts

Kaplansky Insurance Agency, an independent agency headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, recently announced that it has acquired North State Insurance Agency of Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. North State Insurance Agency has been providing insurance services to …

Graves Joins Dallas Office of All Risks

The South Central operation of property/casualty wholesale insurance broker All Risks Ltd. has added Eric Graves as a producer in Dallas. Graves joins the Dallas office as a brokerage underwriter and brings proven abilities in sales, marketing and business development. …

Wildfire Spreads in Western Oklahoma, Homes Evacuated

Emergency personnel say about a dozen people have been evacuated from their homes because of wildfire that has burned 37 square miles in rural western Oklahoma. Woodward County emergency manager Matt Lehenbauer said on March 17 that the fire is …

Iowa House Panel OKs Car Insurance Tracking Bill

People in Iowa with outdated car insurance would be monitored by a private company for compliance under a bill approved by a House panel. Members of a Ways and Means subcommittee approved the bill before sending it to a full …

Missouri Man Admits Role in Arson-for-Insurance Schemes

A man implicated in an arson-and-insurance fraud scheme when his clothes caught fire during a house blaze he helped set has pleaded guilty in Missouri to federal conspiracy and other charges. John S. Wayne, of Kansas City, entered the pleas …

AmTrust to Acquire ARI Mutual Insurance in Pennsylvania

AmTrust Financial Services Inc. announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement, pending regulatory and policyholder approval, to acquire ARI Mutual Insurance Company in Newtown, Pennsylvania, following the completion of the conversion of ARI to a stock company …

CoreLogic Releases Property Risk Assessment Platform

CoreLogic, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, has released RCT Express 4.2, an expanded property risk assessment platform offering the insurance industry a fully-integrated and complete view of property risk that includes comprehensive building and contents valuation …

Retired Head of CAP in California Reflects on Medical Malpractice

He’s only a few weeks into official retirement, but James L. Weidner is already looking back fondly at the last 20 years as chief executive officer of Cooperative of American Physicians. “It was just an absolutely wonderful experience,” said Weidner, …