February 20, 2019
C&S Insurance has acquired Dedham, Mass.-based Francis M. Walley Insurance Agency. Since assuming ownership in 2012, C&S Insurance second-generation owners Ben Cavallo and Keith Signoriello have completed seven agency acquisitions. Altogether, C&S Insurance – headquartered in Mansfield, Mass. – now …
February 20, 2019
New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner Marlene Caride last week issued a bulletin encouraging insurers and entities regulated by the department to work with and assist employees of the Marcal paper products facility who lost their jobs after …
February 20, 2019
Workers’ compensation insurance will continue to cost less for most Vermont employers when new rates approved by the Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) become effective on April 1, 2019. This is the third rate decrease since Governor Phil Scott took …
February 19, 2019
The son of a suburban Philadelphia woman convicted in a multi-million-dollar insurance fraud case following fires at her Bucks County property has been sentenced to four years’ probation. Forty-seven-year-old Carl Risoldi of Doylestown, Penn., pleaded guilty Friday to three related …
February 19, 2019
BroGue Insurance & Financial Services has promoted Heather Kinney to agency manager and hired Derek Cole. Kinney began her insurance career in 1990 and has been a licensed agent since 1999, with experience in both personal and commercial lines. In …
February 19, 2019
PMC Insurance Group, a Bedford, Mass.-headquartered, national workers’ compensation wholesaler, has hired Richard Skinner as assistant vice president for its staffing programs division, StaffPRO3. In his new role, Skinner will be responsible for growing new business nationwide. He brings more …
February 15, 2019
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company will cut its rates in Virginia for the second time in two years. As a result, its overall personal auto rate will drop by 4.9 percent. The total state-wide expected impact for State Farm …
February 15, 2019
Police in Long Island, N.Y., say a construction worker has his legs severed below the knee when a steel plate knocked him into a hole and landed on him. Officials say the unidentified 39-year-old man was working to install a …
February 15, 2019
State environmental officials say a southern Delaware poultry processing facility with a history of wastewater violations has reported an accidental discharge of up to 1 million gallons of partially treated wastewater. Officials say Arkansas-based Mountaire Farms reported that the release …
February 14, 2019
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser recently established the District of Columbia Financial Services Regulatory Sandbox and Innovation Council. The council is charged with studying and reporting on the feasibility of implementing a financial services regulatory sandbox in the District …