IFG Companies has announced that Mesale Solomon has joined as its senior vice president and chief people officer. Solomon comes to IFG with more than 15 years of experience leading human resource professionals and helping businesses with their talent strategy …
Brown & Brown Insurance Services of California Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired certain assets of San Francisco, Calif.-based BayRisk Insurance Brokers Inc. Following the transaction, the BayRisk team will relocate to Brown & Brown’s existing …
Barney & Barney has appointed nine senior executives to principals. The new principals in the firm’s San Diego, Calif. office are: David Freeman; Richard Hallett; LuAnn McSwiggen and Debora Walker. The new Principals in the firm’s Orange County office are: …
Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Ryan Brannan is lowering the maintenance tax rate paid on premiums collected by workers’ compensation insurance carriers for the third straight year, the Texas Department of Insurance announced. The tax rate for premiums collected in 2015 …
Few people in the world could probably offer the sort of perspective on China’s developing insurance industry as economist Qixiang Sun. Sun is the dean of the school of economics at Peking University, and director of the China Center for …
Cross Insurance, an insurance agency headquartered in Bangor, Maine, has hired Eric Jermyn as vice president of business development for Cross Employee Benefits. He will be based in Portland, Maine.
After General Electric Co. began selling finance operations to exit too-big-to-fail status, American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Peter Hancock said it wasn’t clear that escaping the government risk tag would offer significant benefits to his company. Then in …
ProSight Specialty Insurance has hired Kevin Kenny as senior executive, Strategic Initiatives. He is based in ProSight’s Morristown, New Jersey, headquarters office. In his new role, Kenny will oversee the development of new partnerships and new programs for ProSight. Kenny …
A former Pennsylvania theater owner convicted of falsifying insurance claims involving a flood at one playhouse and a fire at another has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. Federal investigators say New Hope, Pennsylvania, resident Ralph Miller also …
General Star has introduced General Star Connect, a cloud-based rating software system developed by ClarionDoor, LLC, and customized for General Star’s Contract P&C unit of the Delegated Division. General Star’s quoting process through ClarionDoor automates the manual quoting process, and …
