The Surplus Line Association of California, headquartered in San Ramon, California, promoted Barbara Trumbly to senior vice president and has hired Yusuf Mayet as the organization’s vice president for compliance. Trumbly, previously the SLA’s vice president for human resources, is …
Photos of damaged vehicles are relevant to the likelihood and degree of personal injury in a car accident case and they are admissible at trial, even when no expert witnesses are around to testify about them, the Massachusetts high court …
Four people were killed early Sunday in a wrong-way collision involving several vehicles on a freeway east of Los Angeles, authorities said. The crash occurred around 2:30 a.m. in southbound lanes of State Route 71 in Chino Hills after several …
It appears one of the nation’s better known cannabis insurance specialists is having to do some scrambling after AM Best announced it was downgrading the credit ratings of Topa Insurance Co. in Calabasas, California, and its subsidiary, Dorchester Insurance Company …
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Tokio Marine and Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI). A summary of these new hires follows here. Tokio Marine Hires Underwriters from Atradius, Coface for UK Trade Credit Tokio Marine HCC International …
Porch Group, Inc. announced that its insurance business, Homeowners of America (“HOA”), has filed an application to form and license a Texas reciprocal insurance exchange (a “Reciprocal”) with the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI). If approved and fully implemented by …
AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “bbb+ (Good) from “a-” (Excellent) of Topa Insurance Co. in Calabasas, California, and its subsidiary, Dorchester Insurance Company Ltd. …
A judge in Louisiana and a prosecutor in Texas have taken action to block two separate insurance fraud schemes: One by a law firm whose lawyers admitted filing claims on behalf of homeowners it did not represent and another by …
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. today announced the acquisition of Fort Wayne, Indiana-based Stewart, Brimner, Peters & Company, Inc. (SBP). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. SBP is a retail insurance broker offering a variety of commercial and personal …
Reliance Partners acquired the assets of Truck Team Insurance in Salt Lake City, Utah. Truck Team Insurance Owner Brent Tate will also join Reliance Partners’ team as vice president of sales. He has more than 20 years of commercial insurance …
