Foremost Insurance Group is offering a new auto insurance program in Maryland that includes increased limit and deductible options. The new program, called DistinctChoice Auto, includes multi-policy discounts (Farmers, Foremost and Zurich Small Business policies qualify) and optional dynamite deductible …
On Jan. 6, the WCI Chinese Drywall Trust, an entity formed in bankruptcy proceedings of residential homebuilder WCI Communities Inc., announced it had filed suit against 14 insurance companies seeking indemnification for losses arising from claims related to allegedly defective …
Bordentown, N.J.-based New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, an environmental and construction-related professional liability resource for insurance agents and brokers, announced it is building its underweriting team by appointing Carole Carretta of Lafayette, Calif., to assistant vice president. Carretta, who will …
A sharply divided Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that requires someone planning to sue a bar over liability in a drunken driving crash to notify the bar within 180 days of the crash. The Supreme Court issued …
State Sen. Hansen Clarke has jumped into the Michigan governor’s race now that Lt. Gov. John Cherry has decided not to run. Auto insurance reform will likely figure prominently in Clarke’s bid for the governor’s office. The Detroit Democrat said …
For the third consecutive year, the Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company will be returning a dividend to all LAMMICO policyholders in Louisiana and Arkansas. Nearly 6,000 policyholders will receive a 10 percent dividend of a policyholder’s written premium. The total …
McKinney Insurance Group, an independent property/casualty insurance brokerage, has merged with Higginbotham & Associates, a national private insurance and financial services firm headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, with statewide offices and affiliates. McKinney Insurance Group, whose business is commercial and …
A P/C claims unit of the insurer formerly known as AIG has paid a $495,000 fine to regulators in New York for improper licensing of the business and its employees, according to the latest disciplinary report from the New York …
Federal regulators have fined a Houston company $1,477,500 for a July 2009 explosion that left a worker dead. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited CES Environmental Services Inc. after an investigation into the death of 45-year-old Bruce Clayton Howard …
Zurich, a property and casualty insurance provider globally and in North America, announced that Doug Bergen has been appointed southwest regional property manager for its Global Corporate in North America (GCiNA) business unit. Bergen will be located in Zurich’s Glendale, …
