Owners of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., businesses that were raided and burned during the violent protests over the death of George Floyd are appealing to state lawmakers for help with rebuilding. Several store owners in Minneapolis and St. Paul …
Palomar Holdings Inc., a specialty property insurance headquartered in La Jolla, Calif., has forged an agreement with Technical Risk Underwriters (TRU), an Austin, Texas-based subsidiary of Ryan Specialty Group LLC (RSG), to facilitate Palomar’s expansion in the builder’s risk market. …
IICF Southeast Division event will help support more than 20 nonprofits DALLAS (Feb. 1, 2021) –The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a unique nonprofit organization dedicated to helping communities and enriching lives, will host its ninth annual Southeast Division Gala …
San Francisco, Calif.-based Newfront Insurance has named Lindsay Spruill-Iqbal a principal and surety producer. Spruill-Iqbal joins Newfront from AmTrust Surety. Spruill-Iqbal has more than 15 years of marketing and underwriting experience within the surety industry. Newfront is a tech-enabled insurance …
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Tuesday announced two major new investments, revealing an $8.6 billion stake in the phone company Verizon Communications Inc. and a $4.1 billion stake in oil company Chevron Corp. The investments were disclosed in a …
The question is not whether the future of the insurance industry is bright. “Few industries are better positioned for outstanding growth over the next 15 years,” insists Verisk’s Mark Anquillare. Anquillare points to the giant global protection gap between what …
An estimated 100 animals died when an overnight fire filled an Indianapolis pet store with thick smoke and deadly gases, fire officials said. It took firefighters about an hour to extinguish the blaze at Uncle Bill’s Pet Center on Monday …
National Transportation Safety Board said it would investigate a massive crash involving more than 130 vehicles on an icy Texas highway that killed six people and injured dozens more. The NTSB said on Twitter that its safety investigation would focus …
NTIS Transportation Insurance Services has relocated from Laguna Hills, Calif., to Las Vegas, Nev. The California staff will now work remote. The firm has also added new staff and additional truck insurance markets. NTIS is a wholesale broker and program …
The finger-pointing began immediately: It was the frozen wind turbines that foolishly replaced traditional sources. No, fossil fuels were at fault. No, Texas’s deregulated power market, unique in the country, had allowed companies to skimp on maintenance and upgrades. As …
