Irvine, Calif.-based Burnham Benefits Insurance Services Inc. has named Luis Milla chief strategy officer to lead the firm’s technical unit. Milla joins Burnham Benefits with more than 23 years of experience in the employee benefits industry. Milla was previously a …
Lulled asleep by the humming of their Texas-bound charter bus following a trip to Disney World, members of a high school band were jarred awake before dawn Tuesday when the rig ran off a highway and plunged into a deep …
United Valley Insurance Services Inc. has named Monika Aguirre member relationship manager. Aguirre’s responsibilities will be handling member relationships in Northern and Central California. She will also take the lead managing United Valley’s Preferred Vendor relationships. She has more than …
Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has promoted Michael Carmody to claims director of the northeast region, which includes MEMIC’s New Hampshire, Connecticut and New York offices. Carmody began his career in the claims industry more than 25 years ago …
Milliman Inc., a global consulting and actuarial firm, has added a property and casualty team to its Tampa, Fla., office in response to the growing demand for the firm’s property insurance analytics. It has tapped consulting actuary John Rollins to …
The Norfolk and Dedham Group (N&D), based in Dedham, Mass., has appointed Victor Pepin to its senior leadership team as chief operating officer. In this newly created role, he will provide executive oversight of its marketing, personal and commercial lines …
Two men pled guilty in federal court for their respective roles in a scheme to commit insurance fraud by arson. Dudley Bledsoe, age 63, of Hanover in Wyoming County, West Virginia, and Ricky Dwayne Gleason, age 54, of Peach Creek …
A lawsuit claiming Monsanto Co.’s popular weed killer Roundup causes cancer was dealt a blow by a judge’s conclusions that the opinions of the experts testifying against it are “shaky,” a potentially devastating development for the case getting to trial. …
Women suing Uber Technologies Inc. over claims that it’s failed to protect thousands of passengers from sexual misconduct by drivers are fighting back against the ride-hailing giant’s move to force them into arbitration. The women alleged Thursday that rather than …
Selective Insurance Company of America, a Branchville, N.J.-headquartered subsidiary of Selective Insurance Group Inc., has announced several officer appointments. Charles Musilli has been appointed to executive vice president and chief human resources officer. Musilli first joined Selective in 1981 as …
