Aspen Insurance Holdings reported greatly improved results for the fourth quarter of 2009 and for the full year. The Bermuda-based Company listed the following earnings highlights: — Diluted book value per share of $34.04, up 21.1 percent over 2008 and …
During a recent legislative hearing in Nebraska, emergency workers from across the state recalled traumatizing accident scenes when asking for a new level of workers’ compensation coverage. The emergency personnel were testifying in support of a bill filed in January, …
An Iowa House of Representatives committee has approved a limited ban on motorists using their cell phones to send text messages while motoring down the highway. Republican Rep. Dave Tjepkes, a retired Iowa State Patrol trooper from Gowrie, says texting …
New Hampshire is asking the state Supreme Court to reconsider rejecting its claim to $110 million in surplus from a fund that underwrites medical malpractice insurance. In a 3-2 decision last month, the court upheld policyholders’ claim they had a …
A small pre-dawn earthquake hit northern Illinois on Feb. 10, startling residents as far away as Michigan and Iowa, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported. The Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) said the earthquake was felt in eight …
Washington is one step closer to allowing the creation of a flood insurance joint underwriting association (JUA), a publicly sponsored, temporary, not-for-profit insurer of last resort to provide insurance when certain types of coverage become unavailable on the open market. …
Keystone Insurers Group has named Erica Grimm as head of it Employee Benefits Division in Pennsylvania. Grimm previously represented Emerson Reid & Co. as broker relationship manager responsible for the Keystone relationship. She is a 16-year veteran in employee benefits …
The New York Insurance Department has officially released a new set of rules that will require insurance agents and brokers to provide some detailed information to clients about how agents are paid. The new regulation, which goes into effect Jan. …
J. Curtis Breitweiser, owner of Ogden, Utah-based Breitweiser Insurance Services Inc., has received the 2009 Agent of the Year award from the Utah Association of Independent Insurance Agents. He has been a past president of the UAIIA and currently serves …
