January 27, 2010
Arthur D. Perschetz has joined Baker & Daniels as counsel in the law firm’s insurance and financial services group. He will also serve as a senior adviser with B&D Consulting, an advisory and advocacy division of Baker & Daniels. Perschetz …
January 27, 2010
Munich Re posted a statutory notice on Tuesday announcing that Berkshire Hathaway’s stake in the company rose to 3.045 percent on January 18, just above the level at which such holdings must be disclosed. “Warren Buffett is an expert at …
January 27, 2010
San Francisco-based Civil Service Employees Insurance Group (CSE Insurance) has launched the 2010 CSE Youth Scholarship Program, an annual essay competition designed to promote awareness of driver safety among young people. As part of the program, CSE will designate $12,000 …
January 27, 2010
Global business leaders warned Western governments on Wednesday that a populist crackdown on the financial industry could crimp a fragile recovery from the worst recession since the 1930s. The worried response to U.S. President Barack Obama’s plans to tax and …
January 27, 2010
NSM Insurance Group acquired Condon & Skelly Collectible Vehicle Insurance, effective Dec. 31, 2009. Founded in 1965, Condon & Skelly Collectible Vehicle Insurance began as a small niche insurance provider, and claims to be one of the original insurance brokers …
January 27, 2010
Federal safety officials are investigating a DuPont chemical plant Monday after a series of leaks that resulted in the death of one worker and the operation’s temporary shutdown. DuPont officials put the sprawling Belle plant in West Virginia on safety …
January 27, 2010
Young property/casualty insurance agents and brokers across the U.S. are being called upon to answer some questions … and have some fun. Who are you? What do you really think about your career? About your industry? About the older agents …
January 27, 2010
Toronto-based Kingsway Financial Services announced today that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with The Westaim Corporation to sell “all of the issued and outstanding shares of Jevco Insurance Company to Westaim for an aggregate purchase price of …
January 27, 2010
A wrongful death lawsuit contends a Hoover motel owner and maintenance man are to blame for the deaths of four Mississippi college students in a fire earlier this month. The lawsuit, filed in Jefferson County Circuit Court by by parents …
January 27, 2010
Aon Benfield announced the launch of its proprietary facultative broking platform. The web portal, FAConnectSM, “brings the broker marketplace to clients’ computer desktops, allowing them to quote and bind their unique facultative risks in less than five minutes through a …