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Hiscox Releases Special Protection Insurance for Houses of Worship

Hiscox has launched a Houses of Worship coverage, a new offering through its Special Protection Solution program. The product addresses risks faced by religious institutions within the United States and abroad with no country exclusions. The Houses of Worship Special …

Marsh Names Sammeroff to lead UK Real Estate Development Team

Marsh has appointed Candice Sammeroff to lead the firm’s business development in the commercial property and real estate sector in the UK. She has 10 years’ experience in the legal sector, and joins Marsh from MacRoberts Solicitors [law firm] in …

Carey and Buss Join Impact Risk Solutions in Houston

Impact Risk Solutions, the brokerage arm of CHS insurance subsidiary, Ag States Group, has added Edward Carey and Matthew Buss to its risk management team. Carey and Buss will work out of the company’s Houston office. Carey assumes the position …

USI Holdings Acquires Business from Seattle Broker RA Bench

USI Holdings Corp. has reported the closing of the acquisition of the insurance and financial services business of RA Bench, a Seattle, Washington, based wealth management, executive and group employee benefit insurance brokerage firm. The acquired RAB business, which will …

How New York Insurance Broker Has Used Social Media

To the 77 percent of independent insurance agencies that don’t have a social media presence, creating a profile and trying to form “friendships” via a computer can be daunting. Once an agency gets online, however, tools such as blogs, Facebook, …

Measure to Privatize Oklahoma’s Compsource Dead for the Year

The author of legislation authorizing the sale of Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation insurance agency said he does not have enough votes to pass it in the state House and that the bill appears dead for the year. But Rep. Dan Sullivan, …

American E&S Creates Package Program for Financial Institutions

American E&S (AES) Insurance Brokers has designed an exclusive Bank Package Program that will provide bankers’ professional liability, directors and officers, and bond coverage for financial institutions nationwide. AES designed this facility for community banks, but there are no qualification …

Dumm Named Chairman of National Alliance Board

Professor Randy Dumm, Ph.D., of Florida State University, in Tallahassee, Fla., has been named the new chairman of the board for Austin, Texas-based The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research. The National Alliance also named four new board members: …

Midlands Management Launches Data Breach Coverage

Midlands Management Corp., an operating subsidiary of PMA Capital Corp., has started a new program with data breach coverage. It is designed for clients in industries that are data intensive and required to comply with stringent regulations and laws governing …

Calif. Workers’ Comp Insurer Records $143 Million Net Income for 2009

The California State Compensation Insurance Fund, reported it ended 2009 with $1.25 billion in net premium earned, and $143 million in net income, compared with $75 million in net income earned in 2008, Doug Stewart, interim president and CEO announced. …

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