Higginbotham has acquired Botson Insurance Group of Avon, Ohio. This move extends the Texas firm’s presence across Ohio, as Higginbotham formed a similar collaboration with western Ohio’s Community Insurance Group, Ltd. earlier this year. Terms of the deal were not …
Atain Insurance Companies, headquartered in Farmington Hills, Mich., hired Cara Delestienne as vice president and head of binding authority. Delestienne has over two decades of insurance industry experience, most recently serving as vice president operations at MacNeill Group, Inc. She …
The Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois announced it will rebrand to Big I Illinois in 2024. The Illinois association’s rebranding will better reflect a name that has resonated with agents, carriers, and lawmakers throughout the organization’s 125-year history, the association …
DETROIT (AP) – U.S. auto safety regulators said Monday they are monitoring data from a group of mostly unrecalled Takata air bag inflators after one of them exploded in a BMW and hurled metal fragments that seriously injured a driver …
World Insurance Associates LLC announced that it acquired the business of American Trust Insurance, LLC (“ATI”) of Huron, South Dakota on December 1, 2023. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ATI was founded in 2004, and today it has …
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – The family of a 22-year-old woman who died in an apartment fire in Kansas’ largest city after mistakes by the 911 dispatch center believes the center has “systemic issues,” and the local firefighters union is calling …
CHICAGO (AP) – The father of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy fatally stabbed in what authorities allege was a hate crime has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Oday Al-Fayoume filed the lawsuit last month against the suburban Chicago landlord charged …
An Iowa man pleaded guilty to wire fraud for using his position as an insurance agent and annuity salesperson to defraud elderly individuals out of their retirement savings and other monies. Zachary James Flaherty, age 47, of Clive pled guilty …
The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed an appellate court ruling that found that injuries to a 14-year-old boy who was struck by a car while riding his bicycle are covered by his father’s uninsured motorist policy despite language that …
DOVER, Del. (AP) – The DuPont Co. and two spin-off firms will pay $110 million to the state of Ohio to settle a lawsuit over environmental threats from toxic chemicals used at a former DuPont facility in neighboring West Virginia, …
