Guy Carpenter Chairman Britt Newhouse is retiring at the end of 2017, a company spokesperson has confirmed. Newhouse has been chairman of the reinsurance broker/strategic advisory firm as part of leadership changes at the unit in 2008. Newhouse joined Guy …
Researchers say the ZIP code containing the highest number of registered hobbyist drone users in the country is in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported drone researchers at Bard College in New York analyzed data from the Federal Aviation …
British banks may have unanimously passed Bank of England stress tests, but that clean bill of health came with concern about a messy Brexit, courtesy of Governor Mark Carney. The central bank told lenders to add another 6 billion pounds …
Tribal First, a division of Alliant Specialty Insurance Services Inc., has acquired American Indian Health Services. Brendan McKenna, president of AIHS, and his team will join Alliant and continue to serve clients from its Sammamish, Wash. location. Terms of the …
Marsh announced that its combined Jelf and Bluefin business in the UK will, from early 2018, begin rebranding as Jelf. With almost 3,000 colleagues serving over 250,000 clients from 80 locations, the new Jelf will be one of the UK’s …
Gallagher announced the appointment of James Anderson as group managing director of Rossborough Insurance – its personal and commercial lines broking business based in the Channel Islands and Isle of Man – subject to regulatory approval. Anderson succeeds Clive de …
An unlicensed home improvement contractor who left an elderly woman’s home in ruins has pleaded guilty. The Salem News reports that 49-year-old Jaime Ford’s guilty pleas Monday to 42 charges including larceny, forgery, insurance fraud, and being a common and …
A Vermont organization that serves the state’s municipal governments says the town of Victory must comply with certain conditions of probation or lose its insurance. The Caledonian Record reports that the conditions were made public this past week. The Vermont …
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello said the island has agreed to give the Federal Emergency Management Agency unprecedented power to oversee disaster-relief spending, a step that may mollify Congress as the territory seeks billions to recover from Hurricane Maria. Rossello, …
Maritime Program Group Inc. (MPG) of Westbrook, Conn., has hired Matthew Roper as manager of its Commercial Recreational Marine program. In this role, Roper assumes responsibility for the growth, development and profitability of MPG’s core recreational marine portfolio. He is …
