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Startup Neptune Offering Digital Private Flood Product to Agents, Carriers in Nationwide Expansion
Jan 25 2018 // A digital startup private flood insurance provider, Neptune Flood, has secured $2 million in seed round funding and has plans to “aggressively expand” nationwide by offering its platform to carriers, agencies...
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Jan 22 2018 // Salt Lake City, Utah-based Leavitt Group Insurance Advisors has named Mike Scott a senior risk advisor and director of program business. Scott will focus on middle markets, large accounts, and hard-to-place specialty...
Nationwide Chief Information Officer Keller to Retire
Jan 19 2018 // Columbus, Ohio-based insurer, Nationwide, announced that Chief Information Officer Michael Keller will retire from his role later this year. Keller has been the CIO for Nationwide since 2001. The company anticipates it...
VanDenBosch Named President of Nationwide Private Client in Arizona
Jan 10 2018 // Paul VanDenBosch has been named president of Nationwide Private Client. Nationwide Private Client business operations are based in Scottsdale, Arizona. VanDenBosch has more than 25 years of experience in the insurance...
New Product Uses Blockchain to Show Proof of Insurance
Dec 27 2017 // The Institutes’ work with insurers in the blockchain space has led to a debut product – a tool designed to establish proof of auto insurance. Nationwide is the first carrier to bring it to production and is already...
Brit Global Specialty Adds Nationwide’s Mocio to U.S. Cyber Team
Oct 25 2017 // Brit Global Specialty has appointed Courtney Mocio as vice president, Cyber & Technology. In this role, Mocio will be responsible for helping to grow Brit’s cyber and technology portfolio in the U.S. Mocio brings...
Pennsylvania Law Firms Hedge Bets on Marijuana Being Legalized Nationwide
Sep 18 2017 // A number of Philadelphia-area law firms are setting up practices to serve the cannabis industry despite concerns of an uncertain future. Many of the city’s biggest law firms — including Duane Morris, Fox...
Pennsylvania Law Firms Hedge Bets on Marijuana Being Legalized Nationwide
Aug 24 2017 // A number of Philadelphia-area law firms are setting up practices to serve the cannabis industry despite concerns of an uncertain future. Many of the city’s biggest law firms – including Duane Morris, Fox...
Surplus Lines Insurance Premium Up Nationwide
Aug 7 2017 // A mid-year compilation of excess and surplus (E&S) insurance premium amounts by the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) shows a 6.6 percent increase in premium nationally compared with the same period last...
At-Home Medication Errors Leading to Serious Medical Outcomes on the Rise
Jul 31 2017 // Every 21 seconds someone in the United States calls a poison control hotline because of a medication error. A recent study from Nationwide Children’s Hospital, published by Clinical Toxicology, found a 100 percent...
Surplus Lines Insurance Premium Up Nationwide
Jul 26 2017 // A mid-year compilation of excess and surplus (E&S) insurance premium amounts by the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) shows a 6.6 percent increase in premium nationally compared with the same period last...
Nationwide Names Travelers’ Stueber as Vice President of Construction
May 15 2017 // Linda Stueber has joined Nationwide as the new vice president of Construction for Standard Commercial, the insurer announced. Stueber has 25 years of experience in commercial lines— with the past 20 years focused...
Making a Federal Case Out of ‘Legal’ Marijuana Insurance Claims
Apr 11 2017 // Michael Johnston, the great, great grandson of the founder of one of the first Baptist churches in Texas, grew up being constantly warned about sin, including the evils of television and dancing. Thus it is a bit strange...
Nationwide Says Extreme Weather Brings Bigger Claims, Need for Disaster Plans
Mar 2 2017 // More extreme weather has led to more extreme insurance claims in the U.S. over the past few years. In a review of more than 100,000 commercial catastrophe claims during a 10-year period, Mark A. Anderson, a claims...
Nationwide Re-Signs with NFL for 4 More Years
Feb 3 2017 // Nationwide and the National Football League announced that the Ohio-based insurer will remain an official auto, home and life insurance sponsor of the league for the next four years. As part of the agreement, Nationwide...
Nationwide Using Mobile-App Startup Sure to Sell Renters Insurance
Jan 20 2017 // On-demand insurance agency Sure has signed Nationwide as a partner in offering renters insurance via its real time mobile app. Using the Sure app (for iPhone and Android), consumers can now obtain a renters insurance...
Ohio-Based Central Insurance Names Nationwide’s Goad as CFO
Jan 19 2017 // Keith Goad has been hired as chief financial officer for both Central Mutual Insurance Company and All America Insurance Company. The companies are based in Van Wert, Ohio. As CFO, Goad holds overall accountability for the...
Supreme Court to Decide If Employee Arbitration Clauses Are Enforceable Nationwide
Jan 17 2017 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether companies can head off costly class action lawsuits by forcing employees to give up their right to pursue work-related legal claims in court as a group. The...
National General Purchases Non-Standard Auto Renewal Rights from Nationwide
Dec 12 2016 // National General Holdings Corp. has entered into a renewal rights transaction with Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. for its personal and commercial non-standard vehicle in-force policies. National General will partner with...
Peyton Manning’s Pep Talk to Insurance Leaders: ‘You Are Only as Good as the Team Around You’
Oct 24 2016 // If retired NFL quarterback Peyton Manning felt out of place in a room filled with insurance professionals – miles away from where he was last year on his way to a Super Bowl-winning season – no one would have...
