August 10, 2015
ANV Global Services Inc., the North American managing general underwriter (MGU) segment of global speciality insurance group ANV, has launched a new risk management hotline for its employment practices liability insurance (EPLI) policyholders in North America. The EPLI hotline will …
August 10, 2015
AmWINS has added Matt Brott, Rob Vecchio, and Nick Oliver to its Southeast area offices. Brott joined AmWINS Brokerage of Georgia on July 24 as executive vice president. He has more than 13 years of experience, most recently leading Swett …
August 10, 2015
Marsh has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Dovetail Insurance, a provider of insurance technology services tailored to the U.S. small commercial market. Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the third quarter, were not disclosed. Based …
August 10, 2015
Orlando, FL, August 10, 2015 — Worldwide Facilities, LLC announced today that its Orlando office has recently been designated the company’s binding authority hub serving all states east of the Rocky Mountains. “This binding authority expansion allows the Orlando office …
August 10, 2015
The rise of rampant claims litigation against property insurers following hailstorms in Texas has created a “cottage industry” that not only threatens the financial health of the state’s property insurers, it puts insurance consumers at risk as well, says a …
August 10, 2015
Federal court officers have recommended a sentence of life in prison for a peanut company executive convicted of selling salmonella-tainted food, a move that attorneys on both sides called “unprecedented” for a food-poisoning case. The potential life sentence for former …
August 10, 2015
The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF) announced the arrest of four South Florida arrests of individuals on charges related to their involvement in three separate personal injury protection (PIP) fraud schemes that resulted in the …
August 7, 2015
Greg O’Brien Insurance Services in Santa Barbara, Calif. has become Consolidated Agency Partners Inc.’s 200th agency member. Reno, Nev.-based CAP offers a range of commercial and personal carrier products. CAP has offices in Nevada, California and Michigan.
August 7, 2015
Hub International Limited announced that its subsidiary Hub New England hired Christopher Taylor as senior vice president and marketing executive for Specialty Lines. Taylor brings directors and officers liability (D&O) expertise to the territory where he will focus on specialty …
August 7, 2015
A recent court decision may have the potential to change the practice of side agreements in workers’ compensation policies California, a practice that some say often goes on under the regulatory radar. Zurich American Insurance Co. and American Zurich Insurance …