U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., has acquired Southlake, Texas-based managing general agency and wholesale insurance broker, American Underwriting Managers (AUM). For 17 years AUM has served the needs of retail insurance agents and insureds alike primarily in Texas and surrounding …
Farmers Insurance has estimated an overall loss of $90 million resulting from severe weather that moved through portions of Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri at the end of December. The region experienced heavy rain, strong winds and hail. Multiple tornadoes in …
USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Healthcare Liability Solutions LLC (HLS), located in Houston, Texas. HLS is a property and casualty brokerage firm dedicated to customizing insurance programs for healthcare organizations and providers specializing in professional liability insurance. Terms of …
Validus Holdings, Ltd., has appointed Rob Halsey as vice president, Atlanta Property manager. In this new position, Halsey will be responsible for building and maintaining the Validus Underwriters Excess & Surplus property business in the Southeast United States and write …
Officials at Minnesota’s health insurance exchange, MNsure, vowed to beef up call center staff for the final weeks of open enrollment, hoping to reverse lengthy call delays in late December 2015 that hearken back to the exchange’s disastrous first year …
The number of work-related deaths in the North Dakota oil patch in 2015 dropped from the previous year. Occupational Safety and Health Administration data show three such fatalities last year, down from seven in 2014 and 10 in 2013. Eric …
The South Carolina Department of Insurance (SCDOI) has advised insurers to continue to report P&C claims as per the data call issued for the October 2015 flood event and its aftermath. The data call was originally issued Oct. 13, 2015 …
Irvine, Calif.-based Burnham Benefits Insurance Services has named Alicia Bergsto an account manager. Prior to Burnham Bergsto was an associate consultant with Health Net Inc., where she worked in partnership with senior consultants developing and maintaining client partnerships with large …
The National Weather Service says a small tornado touched down in Ventura County, Calif. during last week’s powerful El Niño-driven storms. Meteorologists conducting a storms survey determined the tornado swept through a half-mile swath of Fillmore during the morning of …
An explosion at an ExxonMobil oil refinery in California last year could have been prevented if managers had taken into account aging safety equipment and shut down a key, spark-generating part of the refinery before attempting repairs elsewhere, federal investigators …
