June 6, 2018
USI Insurance Services (USI), an insurance brokerage and consulting firm, has named Danette Beck as its National Construction Practice leader. Beck will be responsible for growing USI’s construction practice, which delivers services across a range of clients including general contractors, …
June 6, 2018
Ascinsure Specialty Risk LLC has hired Josie Urbanski as a business development manager. Ascinsure is a Pittsburgh, Penn.-headquartered, all-lines program underwriting manager specializing in the crane, scaffolding and rental equipment and party goods dealers markets. Within her new role, Urbanski …
June 5, 2018
A small plane carrying four people crashed off the coast of New York’s Long Island on Saturday, officials said. Two bodies had been recovered from the crash scene about a mile and a half south of East Hampton as of …
June 5, 2018
Hub International Limited, a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the shares of Flather & Perkins Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., and founded in 1917, Flather & Perkins handles commercial and personal insurance for …
June 5, 2018
EPIC Holdings Inc., the parent company of EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, has added human capital professional Janine Walter as chief talent officer and a member of the EPIC Executive Committee. EPIC is a retail property and casualty and employee …
June 4, 2018
A jury has awarded $31 million to an Iraq War veteran and his wife after a swimming accident at the University of Rhode Island left him paralyzed from the chest down. The Providence Journal reports a Superior Court jury ruled …
June 4, 2018
Delaware’s House Substitute 1 for House Bill 80 (HS 1 for HB 80), signed into law on August 1, 2017, went into effect on May 1 of this year. As a result of the legislation, Delaware consumers with policies through …
June 4, 2018
Stroock has hired Huhnsik Chung as a partner in the firm’s insurance and reinsurance practice within its New York office. He arrives to the firm from Baker McKenzie, where he chaired the North America Insurance practice. Joining Chung is an …
June 1, 2018
Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. (S&S) and East Boston Savings Bank (EBSB) have formed a strategic alliance, offering a full line of commercial, personal and life insurance products. The two firms have a mutual client base throughout New England. …
June 1, 2018
Searchers scouring a river alongside an historic Maryland town ripped apart by flash flooding found the body of a man last seen being swept away by the raging waters as it gutted shops and pushed parked cars into swollen tributaries. …