Risk Strategies Co. has acquired M.G. Welbel & Associates (MGW), a Northbrook, Ill.-based professional liability insurance specialty broker. Terms of the deal were not made public. MGW’S focus is on lawyers and design professionals, including architects, engineers and surveyors. The …
Managing general agency, J.M. Wilson, has added Amanda Witkowski as assistant transportation underwriter in its Arlington Heights, Ill., office. Witkowski is responsible for assisting the transportation underwriting department with setting up policies for issuance and serving independent insurance agents in …
A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying crude oil derailed on Nov. 9 prompting some evacuations in Wisconsin, the second day in a row a freight train derailed in the state. The eastbound CP train derailed about 2 p.m. in Watertown, …
Hundreds of homes and businesses in a central Indiana city hit hard by flash flooding seven years ago could face hefty jumps in their insurance costs if updated federal flood plain maps are approved. About 70 percent of Franklin’s industrial …
Indiana-based medical device manufacturer Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. has been cleared of liability in the first of more than 900 U.S. lawsuits to go to trial over claims that its NexGen Flex knee replacements were prone to painful, motion-impairing loosening. …
Chicago-based Alper Services LLC has added Robert Moyer as an account manager in its Commercial Lines Division. With eight years of experience in the insurance industry, Moyer has worked on both the underwriting and brokerage sides and most recently was …
Accident Fund Insurance Company of America has promoted Mike Seling to vice president of Business Development/Regional Operations. Seling, a 13-year veteran of Accident Fund, began his career in the Finance department and has spent the past eight years in business …
Most commercial chicken and turkey farms that were infected by the bird flu have been cleared to restock, agriculture officials said, but scientists still will keep a close eye on migrating birds and test thousands to see if the virus …
A jury says doctors at a northern Michigan clinic weren’t negligent in using tainted steroids that were part of a national meningitis outbreak. More than 100 patients sued doctors and the clinic, Neuromuscular & Rehabilitation Associates in Traverse City. The …
Health officials in two western Illinois counties say the count of people with suspected illness linked to apple cider has risen to 70. The Quincy Herald-Whig reports that’s the updated tally from the health departments of Pike and Adams counties. …
