January 7, 2021
The founders of Renaissance Alliance Insurance Services, a membership alliance of independent insurance agencies, have retired after 21 years of leading the company. Bruce and Janet Cochrane retired from their full-time roles within the Massachusetts-based insurance agency partnership organization, effective …
January 6, 2021
The board of directors for Union Mutual Insurance Company voted at their December meeting to appoint Philip Lambert to be the company’s vice president of Information Technology and Operations. Lambert starts with the company in the beginning of January. Lambert …
January 6, 2021
Markel Corporation has hired Trevor Gandy as managing director for Talent, Diversity and Inclusion, effective January 1, 2021. In this new role, Gandy will further shape the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion strategy for its global workforce. He will work …
January 6, 2021
Seven people are facing felony charges after at least two federal buildings in Philadelphia were vandalized on New Year’s Eve and the discovery of what police said were Molotov cocktails and other suspicious devices. Officers reported spotting about 50 people, …
January 5, 2021
The top M&A story of 2020 was a global story that captured more readers in every geographic region than any other. Since it was first announced in March, the proposed Aon-Willis merger remained the leading merger and non-merger insurance story …
January 5, 2021
Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY) has acquired the Staffing Insurance Business offered by World Wide Specialty Programs Inc., based in Melville, N.Y. World Wide will operate as a division of PHLY and assume responsibility for its book of staffing business with …
January 5, 2021
World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired R.S. Gilmore Insurance Agency Inc. of North Attleboro, Mass., on December 1, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The R.S. Gilmore Insurance Agency Inc. was established in 1938 and has grown …
January 5, 2021
Two businesses and their owners have been charged with fraud against the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF). Manuel Sanchez and his business Lagos Construction have been charged with grand larceny and other crimes for allegedly failing to pay insurance …
January 4, 2021
All but two construction workers injured in December in an explosion at a high-rise building in Baltimore have been released from hospitals as officials continue to investigate what caused the incident. Twenty-one workers were taken to area hospitals following an …
January 4, 2021
An aquaculture worker who got hurt tending to salmon raised in offshore pens is covered under state law, but not under the federal law that defines some of the rights for mariners, Maine’s supreme court ruled. The court ruled unanimously …