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NAS Promotes Underwriting Assistant

NAS Insurance Services has promoted Genevieve Alexander to Senior Underwriter. Ms. Alexander started at NAS six years ago as an underwriting assistant. She has underwritten a broad range of NAS products. More recently, Genevieve has had much success producing MEDEFENSE™, …

Kronenberg Touts Innovation in Partnerships, Program Manager Role

Tony Campisi and Bill Kronenberg used to tease each other about merging their two Pennsylvania brokerage organizations. Just about a year ago, they started talking for real. On the last day of December, 2008, the deal was struck. Campisi’s York-based …

California’s Patrion Names Sales Executive

Riverside-based Patrion Insurance has named Dennis Silva of Murrieta as Senior Sales Executive. Prior to joining Patrion Insurance, Silva spent six years as a broker with an Orange County insurance brokerage. Previously, he spent five years with a large regional …

Fitch May Cut Berkshire Rating on Burlington Buy

Fitch Ratings said Thursday it may cut its ratings on Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc on concerns about the effect its planned acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. will have on its asset profile and capitalization. Fitch said it …

State: Massachusetts Woman Due $1M in Discrimination Case

A former employee of a Cape Cod country club who said she was laid off because of her age has been awarded nearly $1 million by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. The commission said 64-year-old Virginia DiIorio was one of …

UN Climate Change Treaty May Need Extra Year

A U.N. climate treaty may need an extra year beyond the December deadline to agree on details, delegates at U.N. talks said on Thursday, even as a U.S. Senate committee approved a carbon-capping bill. The Nov. 2-6 meeting of 175 …

Kentucky Derby Museum to Reopen Next April After Flood Damage Fix

The Kentucky Derby Museum will reopen next year after renovations to fix flooding damage are made to the tourist attraction showcasing the world’s most famous horse race. Flash flooding that hit Louisville in early August swamped the basement and main …

Late Season Hurricane Hits Nicaragua

According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide and the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Hurricane Ida made landfall in eastern Nicaragua on Thursday morning, causing damage to homes and knocking out power to islands off the country’s coast on …

Delaware Anti-Speeding Campaign Nets 6,322 Tickets

Delaware’s four-month campaign against speeding produced 6,322 citations. The Office of Highway Safety says that’s an increase of nearly 4,000 compared to a similar, three-month campaign last year. Office spokeswoman Andrea Summers says the number of fatal crashes attributed to …

Willis to Expand UK Commercial Broker Network Internationally

Willis Group Holdings announced plans to expand its successful Willis Commercial Network business model for serving independent brokers from its base in the UK to countries around the world. Willis selected Mark Radburn CEO, Willis Networks International, to oversee the …

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