A key trade group for insurance agents in New York is lauding a proposal by regulators to reform the coastal homeowners insurance market in the state. The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York (IIABNY) called the proposed reforms …
To help New Jersey physicians protect against the rising number of business risks beyond the practice of medicine, MDAdvantage has introduced Supreme Advantage insurance for employment practices liability, privacy and data security and medical practice administration. All three coverages will …
A Massachusetts woman admits that she and her husband intentionally ate glass particles, then submitted false insurance claims. Mary Evano pleaded guilty Tuesday to a 23-count indictment charging her with fraud, conspiracy and other offenses. The indictment alleged that between …
When Kevin McPoyle and Robert Dietzel founded their namesake independent agency, KMRD Partners Inc., six years ago, they aimed to create a unique business model that blended high-level expertise in risk management techniques with an agencywide emphasis on relationship-building. And …
A student is in custody following a series of fires inside a northeastern Pennsylvania dorm. Nineteen-year-old Ryan Burke was arrested hours after two fires broke out early Tuesday in the dorm on the campus of East Stroudsburg University. Burke was …
A Maryland couple has filed a $500,000 lawsuit over a bedbug infestation in an Ellicott City apartment. Orville and Rebecca Brown say they were forced to move out of their apartment and throw away most of their possessions, including all …
Berkley Net Underwriters has named Matthew McCue director of business development for the Mid-Atlantic region. McCue will lead BerkleyNet’s efforts to expand its agency distribution in Connecticut, Virginia and Maryland. He succeeds Bruce Hayden, who has been named director of …
Safety Insurance has begun refunding a total $7.2 million to roughly 21,000 Massachusetts policyholders who were overcharged for motorcycle insurance, according to the state’s attorney general. The refunds are part of a settlement with several motorcycle insurers reached earlier this …
Fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of a blaze that raced through the main building at the Torrington Country Club and caused an estimated $500,000 in damage. Authorities say the four-alarm fire in Goshen began at about 10:30 …
Maryland’s highest court has upheld a state law that limits the amount of money people can receive for suffering in lawsuits. Judges on the Court of Appeals ruled against the parents of a 5-year-old boy who drowned at a Crofton …
