October 31, 2019
Kapnick Insurance Group has added Erica White in its Troy, Michigan, office as a client executive. White joins Kapnick with a variety of professional strengths ranging from healthcare industry, the automotive industry, city government and small business. She is a …
October 31, 2019
Surplus lines broker and managing general agency J.M. Wilson has promoted Christine Russon to corporate trainer in its Portage, Michigan, office. She will be responsible for new employee onboarding and training, continued training and development for all employees, and improving …
October 31, 2019
Insurance carriers and agents are applauding a House committee vote advancing a bipartisan measure to renew the federal terrorism reinsurance program. The House Financial Services Committee unanimously (57-0) passed the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4634), which would …
October 31, 2019
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Wednesday vowed to speed up efforts to make sure the dangerous cladding used in the Grenfell Tower is removed from other high-rise buildings before there is another tragic fire. Speaking on the day a damning …
October 31, 2019
An organization of state lawmakers is moving ahead toward adoption of a “model law” designed to encourage the sale of private flood insurance, even though insurers don’t think any new state laws are necessary and agents think the current draft …
October 31, 2019
This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. As of October 29, there were at least 18 fires burning in California, ranging in size from a few acres to more than 74,000 acres as in the case of …
October 31, 2019
Several dozen activist groups, businesses and elected representatives released a letter on Thursday to the CEOs of Liberty Mutual, AIG and Farmers calling on the three biggest fire insurers in California to stop fueling the “climate crisis” that is creating …
October 31, 2019
Taylor Swift won’t escape so easily after all from allegations that her 2014 hit “Shake It Off” illegally copied the lyrics of “Playas Gon’ Play.” The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Monday overturned a judge’s ruling throwing …
October 31, 2019
When Vicky Carter, Guy Carpenter’s chairman of Global Capital Solutions, International, started working in the insurance industry 40 years ago, she was one of only a handful of women. She reflects here on how the industry has changed and the …
October 31, 2019
A family alleges in a lawsuit that a Colorado fertility doctor used his own sperm instead of that of an anonymous donor to impregnate a woman without her consent. KUSA-TV reported that the lawsuit filed this week contends Dr. Paul …