Futuristic self-driving cars traveling along California roads have needed plenty of old-fashioned human intervention to stay safe. California’s Department of Motor Vehicles this week released reports filed by seven companies the agency gave permission to test prototype vehicles in public. …
Lockton Companies announces Hugh Khan has been named senior vice president for software development. A key addition to Lockton’s growing technology business, he will support the company’s intrapreneurial digital startup, Mylo, and its Affinity operation, which serves associations, groups and …
Joseph Miller has joined Centauri Insurance as a regional sales manager in Texas. Miller brings more than 17 years of insurance industry experience to Centauri and is charged with helping to expand the company’s residential property programs. As regional sales …
The threat of flooding is subsiding across the lower Mississippi River region just two weeks after high waters devastated parts of the St. Louis area. The Mississippi probably won’t rise as high from Arkansas to New Orleans as earlier forecasts …
Dallas-based risk management consulting and insurance agency, Dexter & Company, has promoted Royce DeRouen and David Rambie to executive roles at the company. In his new role as senior vice president, DeRouen oversees the Risk Management Consulting division of the …
General Motors Co. found a deadly flaw in its ignition switches but chose to keep customers and regulators in the dark for years, a lawyer for an injured postal carrier told jurors in the first trial over the defect. The …
Ascension Insurance Inc. has acquired Sundance Insurance Inc. in Yuma, Ariz. Don Werley and Debbie Blakesley, the previous co-owners of the Sundance, will join Ascension as senior vice president and senior account manager. Ascension is an insurance agency that offers …
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) recently named 35 consumer liaison representatives for 2016. The 20 funded and 15 unfunded consumer representatives began their terms Jan. 1, 2016. Funded representatives receive travel expense reimbursement from the NAIC; unfunded representatives …
ACE Ltd. and Chubb said they have received all necessary regulatory approvals and will close their $29.7 billion merger agreement today, Jan. 14 – six months after the companies first announced their surprise deal. The newly-combined company will use the …
Twitter Inc. was accused in a lawsuit by the widow of a man killed at a police training center in Jordan of knowingly allowing the Islamic State to spread its terrorist message through its service. Twitter, like other social media …
