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Texas Agency Named Trusted Choice Agency of the Month

The Hill County Insurance Agency, located in Hillsboro, Texas, has been named the Trusted Choice Agency of the Month by Trusted Choice, the consumer branding program for independent insurance agents and brokers. Hill County Insurance Agency has been operating on …

London Market Group Launches ‘Next Phase’ of Electronic Endorsements

The London Market Group (LMG) has announced that the electronic endorsements pilot is “moving into the next phase.” The LMG said “100 percent of Managing Agents, all of which are connecting via the Exchange, 26 Company Market insurers and 15 …

Florida Senator: Obama Not Doing Enough for State

U.S. Sen. George LeMieux criticized President Barack Obama’s handling of the Gulf oil spill Saturday, saying he hasn’t done enough to help Florida and the other affected states or their residents. Obama visited Louisiana’s Gulf Coast on Friday, hours after …

London Broker Cooper Gay Warns Multinationals on D&O Protection

According to Dan Barton, Managing Director of Professional Risks at Cooper Gay, the London-based independent wholesale, reinsurance and specialist retail insurance broker, “many international companies with subsidiaries spread across the globe do not have adequate controls in place to ensure …

Marsh & McLennan Sells Kroll to Providence for $1.13B

Marsh & McLennan Cos Inc agreed to sell investigations unit Kroll to a firm led by former Marsh CEO Michael Cherkasky for less than the insurance broker paid for Kroll six years ago. MMC said on Monday it plans to …

Mapfre Global Risks Launches New Website

MAPFRE GLOBAL RISKS announced from its headquarters in Madrid, that it has launched its new website www.mapfreglobalrisks.com “in order to bring closer to its clients, brokers and service companies, its corporate philosophy and its business solutions to clients, brokers and …

Lawsuit Filed over Atlanta Bridge Collapse

The widow of a construction worker killed when a pedestrian bridge collapsed at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in 2008 has filed a lawsuit against the attraction and several construction companies. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Eucebia Lopez Carbajal, the widow …

UK’s Griffiths, Miller; UAE’s Associated Join Assurex Global Network

Assurex Global, which is based in Columbus, Ohio, has added three new brokers to its international partnership ranks: Griffiths & Armour and Miller Insurance Services, Ltd., both from the UK, and Associated Insurance Consultants (AIC) of the United Arab Emirates. …

Georgia Bans Texting While Driving; Targets Teens

Put down the cell phone and step away from the car. Georgia drivers soon will be banned from texting, checking e-mail or using the Internet behind the wheel and teens will be prohibited from using their cell phones at all …

S&P: AIG Ratings Unchanged after AIA Deal Fails; Outlook Negative

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that its on American International Group Inc. , currently ‘A-‘ – Negative – debt ‘/A-1,’ and its insurance subsidiaries (most of which are rated A+/Negative/–) are not affected by the company’s announcement that it …

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