San Francisco, Calif.-based Newfront Insurance has named Jason Vanderyacht a principal and logistics practice leader. Vanderyacht comes from Alliant, where as vice president. He was with Roanoke Trade before that. Newfront is a tech-enabled brokerage.
The family of a woman who lived at a Washington facility filed a lawsuit alleging neglect that caused her death following bunion surgery. The lawsuit says 33-year-old JoHanna Pratt died from a pulmonary embolism after the surgery in 2017, The …
Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies has expanded the list of states the company offers its architects and engineers professional liability product to include Colorado, Kansas, and Wisconsin. With these three states, the company now offers this line in half the …
The race for the next North Carolina Insurance Commissioner features two familiar faces to state voters in what is a three-peat showdown featuring Republican Mike Causey and Democrat Wayne Goodwin. Causey, the incumbent, bested the two-term former commissioner Goodwin in …
Integrated Specialty Coverages (ISC), a program administrator developing insurance products utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) technology and analytics, has launched its Investor Property Program designed to address large complex residential property schedules. Lead by Gareth Jelley, senior vice president of the …
More than 350,000 homes and businesses in Oklahoma were without electricity on Oct. 28 as cleanup continued from an ice storm that ravaged much of the state. By midmorning on Oct. 28, more than 356,000 homes and businesses were without …
A fast-moving Zeta weakened to a tropical storm as it barreled northeast on Oct. 29 after ripping through Louisiana and Mississippi where storm-weary residents were advised to stay indoors overnight while officials assessed the havoc the storm had wrought. The …
Specialty insurer and reinsurer Argo Group International is exiting the grocery and retail lines of business, which include providing general liability and self-insured retention risk management programs for grocery stores, convenience stores, restaurants and other retail businesses. The company said …
Caroline Farberger, the chief executive of a Swedish insurance company, remembers how she conducted meetings when she was a man. “I would unthinkingly turn to my favorites in the room, the ones I knew shared my views, and suddenly we …
Ohio employers will receive a record $5 billion in repayments from the state insurance fund for injured workers to help with the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Mike DeWine and the fund’s administrator announced. The return of the …
