New Jersey-based Risk Enterprise Management Ltd. (REM) has named Michael Ebert as vice president of programs. Ebert has more than 20 years of insurer and producer sales, marketing, account management and service experience. He joins REM from PMA Group, where …
To the 77 percent of independent insurance agencies that don’t have a social media presence, creating a profile and trying to form “friendships” via a computer can be daunting. Once an agency gets online, however, tools such as blogs, Facebook, …
Allstate will be refund $428,355 to 2,445 Delaware policyholders who had not received discounts on their automobile insurance premiums to which they were lawfully entitled, the state’s insurance commissioner said. All of the affected policyholders had successfully completed Department of …
Thousands of workers who suffered health problems after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 have reached a settlement worth up to $657.5 million with an insurer representing the city of New York, city officials and lawyers said Thursday. Thousands of …
E&S brokerage firm Connecticut Underwriters has named Darren Valencia as director of its professional lines business. Valencia has 10 years of experience underwriting and brokering professional liability coverage, and has held positions at several companies He most recently served as …
Smokers suing Philip Morris and its parent company over light cigarettes will have to start from scratch with their lawsuit in Maine. A federal judge in Bangor has denied plaintiffs’ request to have facts from a previous lawsuit by the …
A suburban Pittsburgh couple is suing Target, claiming their daughter sustained a brain injury when a toy box lid fell on her. Eric and Laura Surman, of Cranberry, claim 2-year-old Camryn Surman had her air supply cut off when the …
Kinsale Capital Group has formed a Virginia-based E&S insurer, called Kinsale Insurance Co., that will underwrite commercial property/casualty and professional liability E&S lines in 31 states and the District of Columbia. The company said it is applying for eligibility in …
Pittsburgh-based Iroquois Mid-Atlantic has hired Kurt Keller to help the agency network further expand its presence in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Keller served previously as an underwriter for Travelers in Pittsburgh. Before that he worked as an agency producer. …
The New Hampshire Supreme Court has refused to reconsider its ruling rejecting the state’s claim to $110 million surplus from a fund that underwrites medical malpractice insurance. Gov. John Lynch spokesman Colin Manning said Tuesday the decision was disappointing. Manning …
