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 …
The Insurance Council of Texas reports that the number of people injured and killed in automobile accidents in Texas has continued to decline since 2003. Both fatalities and injuries are down more than 20 percent since the Texas Department of …
Worldwide Facilities Inc. has named Erik Kamiya vice president and financial services broker, and Steve Vallone financial services broker to work in the company’s San Francisco office. Additionally, the company added two new associate brokers in the San Francisco office …
The Indiana Department of Insurance says it recovered more than $20 million for insurance consumers in 2009, a record for the state. In North Dakota, the insurance department reported $7,578,230.11 was recovered or saved for North Dakota citizens in 2009. …
A senior U.S. official Tuesday criticized China and other leading developing countries for trying to weaken the Copenhagen Accord to fight global warming and raised the prospect that a fuller international pact may be not be struck by year’s end. …
Allstate Insurance Company said it will open an $11.6 million customer information center in San Antonio, Texas, and is planning to hire 600 employees as part of that move. Allstate vice president of direct sales and service Mark Pitchford said …
The appalling loss of life from the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12 has now been estimated by the government to exceed 230,000. The figure is an approximation, as the exact number may never be known. But it is …
