A crash involving more than 30 cars closed the northbound lanes of an interstate in north Georgia as light freezing rain fell across wide swaths of Georgia and Alabama on Monday. No serious injuries were reported in the pileup, but …
More than a dozen people lost their home when a massive fire gutted a Florida apartment building. Roughly 75 firefighters from four agencies battled the fast-moving blaze in Orange Park on Saturday. It took them nearly an hour to extinguish …
Surplus lines in California had a great year with more premium and more items, such as policies and endorsements sold. However, surplus lines brokers had to work harder for all that premium. That’s according to Ben McKay, executive director of …
eReinsure.com, Inc., a global specialty insurance distributor and part of AmWINS Group, will offer a blockchain service linked to its reinsurance platform to help companies share information. According to Igor Best-Devereux, CEO of eReinsure, blockchain’s distributed ledger capabilities could facilitate …
Fort Worth, Texas-based retail insurance broker, Higginbotham, and Independent Insurance Agents of Plainview (IIAP) have merged operations. With the addition of IIAP in Plainview, Higginbotham now has 27 offices in Texas. Higginbotham and IIAP are independent insurance firms providing property …
Mike Keith Insurance of Clinton, Missouri, has joined Keystone Insurers Group, becoming the partnership’s eleventh agency member in Missouri. The Mike Keith agency has four offices located throughout West Central Missouri. The announcement was made jointly today by agency President …
A proposed Ohio law would ban hospitals from forcing nurses to work overtime. The Dayton Daily News reports a nursing shortage has stretched staffing in many hospitals. State Rep. Robert Sprague, a Republican from Findlay, introduced the overtime bill last …
Fidelis Insurance has promoted Richard Coulson to the position of chief underwriting officer of Fidelis Underwriting Ltd. (FUL). He takes up this role with immediate effect and reports to Daniel Burrows, chief executive officer of FUL. Coulson joined Fidelis in …
The majority of all auxiliary engine damage takes place immediately after maintenance work in vessels, according to an investigation by The Swedish Club, a protection & indemnity marine insurer. A key finding is that 55 percent of casualties occur within …
Heavy rains pounding Southern California for a second day caused flooding and loosened hillsides as officials in fire-ravaged communities warned people to stay off roads over fears of destructive mud flows. Water and debris in lanes shut down coastal U.S. …
