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RB Jones, Prosight Specialty Form RB Jones Marine; Tap Engel to Lead

H.W. Kaufman Group, a global network of companies, has expanded the capabilities of its subsidiary RB Jones through a new partnership with ProSight Specialty Insurance. RB Jones will be the exclusive administrator for Prosight’s Marine Solutions and Excess Energy products. …

Millennials Think They’re So Much Better at Multitasking Than Everyone Else. They Are.

Emails, instant messaging, app notifications, RSS feeds, and a plethora of social networks inundate almost every aspect of daily life from work to home or just keeping in touch socially. Some people average more than four information technology (IT) switches …

Vertafore Taps Antanaitis as Chief Marketing Officer

Insurance technology firm Vertafore has hired marketing executive John Antanaitis as its new chief marketing officer. Antanaitis is a board advisor at EquityDoor, a real estate investing portal, and was previously CMO at ZiipRoom (acquired by Bose Corp.) for a …

Top 10 Commercial Auto Insurers: Winners and Losers in Fast-Growing Market

The commercial automobile insurance segment is headed for its ninth straight year of underwriting losses when the books close at year-end 2019, analysts at Fitch Ratings predict in a new report. In fact, a decade of underwriting losses may be …

More Tesla Solar Panel Claims Emerge; 2 Home Insurers Allege Negligence

One evening last year, David Burek noticed charred wood and a burning smell in his attic, near his young sons’ bedroom. He climbed a ladder and saw a melted connector wire from the solar panels installed on the roof of …

Porsche Expands Its ‘Flexible Ownership’ Subscription That Includes Insurance

Porsche is expanding its app-based subscription service to four new cities in the U.S. and Canada, deepening its experiment in flexible car ownership even as other automakers back away. The luxury sports-car brand of Volkswagen AG is adding Las Vegas, …

Update: Hurricane Dorian Goes Easy on Puerto Rico, Gathers Force Heading for Florida

Dorian is gathering force as it aims to become the first major hurricane to slam into the Florida’s east coast in 15 years, with winds of at least 115 miles per hour and drenching rains. The hurricane’s center was located …

Move Over Flo; Progressive Adds Cleveland Browns QB Mayfield to Marketing Team

Insurance carrier Progressive has signed Cleveland Browns star quarterback Baker Mayfield and his new wife, Emily Wilkinson, to its advertising team. “There’s no glorified pro-athlete persona or hard-sell messaging, just highly relatable, everyday and quite funny moments between Baker, Emily …

Purdue Pharma Floats $10-$12 Billion Opioid Settlement: Reuters

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and its owners, the Sackler family, are in discussion to settle more than 2,000 opioid lawsuits against the company for $10 billion to $12 billion, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Purdue …

Lafond Succeeds Giglio as CEO of Insurity

Insurity, Inc., a provider of cloud-based services and data analytics for the property/casualty insurance industry, has appointed Chris Lafond as its chief executive officer, succeeding Chris Giglio, who has been CEO since 2017 and who will remain on the board …

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