Massachusetts agency Provider Insurance has hired Sharon Cardoso as personal lines account manager. She will be responsible for acquiring new clients and expanding existing client accounts in the personal lines division which includes managing auto, home and umbrella policies in …
Specialty insurer Torus appointed Catherine Miller to head of E&S General Property. Based in Jersey City, Miller will manage general property business written through wholesale brokers throughout the United States. Miller, a 15-year industry veteran, joined Torus’ General Property team …
Thousands of laborers, police officers and firefighters suing New York City over their exposure to toxic World Trade Center dust have until Monday to decide whether to join a legal settlement that could ultimately pay them as much as $815 …
New York regulators have finalized guidelines for how agents and brokers are to reveal to clients their commissions, but at least one trade group says any changes to the rules thus far have been “underwhelming.” The department released a new …
CNA has appointed Denise Granlun as business development leader for the insurer’s Philadelphia territory. She joins CNA with 25 years of property and casualty insurance marketing, underwriting and leadership experience. She began her career serving in sales and marketing roles …
A Michigan couple has filed a lawsuit claiming their room at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel was infested with bedbugs. Christine and David Drabicki charged in the lawsuit filed Thursday that they unwittingly brought the bedbugs home with them after they …
Recruiting firm Korn/Ferry International has named Tom Rowe senior client partner and head of its North American insurance practice. Rowe, who will be based in New York, joins from Heidrick & Struggles, where he specialized in the insurance industry, with …
Authorities say a central New York convenience store’s surveillance cameras caught a man purposely pouring soda on the floor and then faking a fall so he could file an insurance claim against the business. State Insurance Department officials said that …
Bowing to pressure from insurers and agent groups, Massachusetts safety regulators have eased new, workers’ comp paperwork requirements for some out-of-state contractors. At issue is a form used by inspectors to verify whether a non-Massachusetts company doing business in the …
Connecticut-based managing general agency Business Risk Partners has named Mark Bradway as director of broker relations. He has worked in specialty liability for over a decade. He began his career at wholesale insurance broker Swett & Crawford in Los Angeles …
