New Jersey-based New Day Underwriting Managers has promoted John Heft to senior vice president, director real estate practice. The 20-year industry veteran joined New Day in 2006, and has developed and managed the company’s real estate book of business, identified …
A Massachusetts jury has returned guilty verdicts against three men — including a lawyer and a chiropractor — accused of staging several fraudulent motor vehicle accidents, according to the attorney general’s office. Omar Castillo, of Methuen, James C. Hyde, of …
New York-based Starr Indemnity & Liability Co. has named John Scully business development manager for Starr Accident & Health, Consumer Markets. He will develop all new opportunities and relationships for the Starr Accident & Health Consumer Profit Center, manage current …
Boston-based medical malpractice insurer ProMutual Group said it will not increase rates this year for Massachusetts doctors and will pay a 6 percent dividend for a third straight year. The company insures more than 7,500 physicians and surgeons in the …
Insurance agent Christopher A. Brassard has been elected president of Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc. (IIABNY), heading a new slate of officers for the state trade group. Brassard — who recently spoke with Insurance Journal about …
When he signed to buy a condo at Vermont’s Stowe Mountain Resort, Patrick Sullivan was told his share of fees charged by the resort developer for hotel-type services would be about $410 a year, not the roughly $8,000 a year …
Officials are staging a series of public hearings around New York on designing the state’s health insurance exchange as part of federal health care reform. The exchanges are intended to create a market for small businesses and individuals to buy …
The widow of a Salem, Mass. man who died when he was flung into the handrails inside a Big Dig tunnel after his pickup truck crashed has filed a $2 million wrongful death suit against eight companies involved in construction …
Baltimore Councilwoman Belinda Conaway is suing a political blogger and his publisher for $21 million for libel and defamation over a column that alleged she did not live in the city. The suit alleges an Examiner.com column by Adam Meister …
New York’s top court this week reinstated a Manhattan restaurant worker’s product liability lawsuit over a lye-crystal drain cleaner, concluding that the companies behind it have to do more than simply state the chemical compound is inherently dangerous and everyone …
