Houston-based specialty property/casualty insurance holding company, Skyward Specialty Insurance Group Inc., has named professional liability insurance executive Brenda Craig as senior vice president and leader of the company’s new Healthcare Professional Liability business. Craig brings more than 20 years of …
Claims adjusting and environmental risk management solutions provider, Global Risk Solutions Inc., has acquired specialist energy sector adjusting and consultancy firm R Winkler & Co., based in Sugar Land, Texas. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Led by founder …
Two Louisiana parishes have been added to the federal disaster declaration for Hurricane Delta. Survivors in Allen and Iberia parishes are now eligible for federal disaster assistance for uninsured and underinsured damage and losses resulting from Hurricane Delta. To be …
Insurance Office of America has acquired Enterprise Risk Strategies LLC in Denver, Colo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Enterprise Risk Strategies is a benefits consulting firm. IOA is an insurance agency headquartered in Longwood, Fla., with more than …
U.S. officials have released a new plan involving methods to deal with a microscopic pest in southeastern Idaho that threatens the state’s billion-dollar industry that supplies a third of the nation’s potatoes. The U.S. Department of Agriculture late last week …
Miguel Cabezola, a driver for United Parcel Service Inc. in Tucson, Arizona, complained on March 27 to U.S. workplace safety regulators, alleging the company was taking a lax approach to social distancing, sanitizing equipment and quarantining workers with COVID-19 symptoms. …
The board of directors for Union Mutual Insurance Company voted at their December meeting to appoint Philip Lambert to be the company’s vice president of Information Technology and Operations. Lambert starts with the company in the beginning of January. Lambert …
Markel Corporation has hired Trevor Gandy as managing director for Talent, Diversity and Inclusion, effective January 1, 2021. In this new role, Gandy will further shape the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion strategy for its global workforce. He will work …
Seven people are facing felony charges after at least two federal buildings in Philadelphia were vandalized on New Year’s Eve and the discovery of what police said were Molotov cocktails and other suspicious devices. Officers reported spotting about 50 people, …
Marsh, the insurance broker and risk adviser, has launched a dedicated Sharing Economy & Mobility (SE&M) industry group in the UK & Ireland. Led by Sam Tiltman, the group brings together over 25 sector specialists encompassing insurance placement and risk …
