January 17, 2020
USG Insurance Services Inc. has named Jay Aguilar a producer/broker in commercial lines in the Scottsdale, Ariz. office. Aguilar will work to expand USG’s Southwestern territory. Aguilar has 23 years of insurance industry experience, most recently at Agents Alliance Services. …
January 17, 2020
Castel Underwriting Agencies Ltd., the managing general agent and club-style MGA formation platform, has announced the appointment of Raoul Carlos as head of Specialty as it structures its underwriting cells and MGAs into a number of centres of excellence focused …
January 17, 2020
Three people were injured, one critically, on Tuesday when scaffolding they were working with at a Massachusetts home came in contact with power lines, police said. Beverly police responded to a report that two workers had fallen from the roof …
January 17, 2020
SterlingRisk Insurance, a Woodbury, N.Y.-based independently owned insurance brokerage, has promoted Geraldine DelPrete to president of Programs. According to SterlingRisk CEO David Sterling in a company press release, DelPrete’s background in reinsurance and underwriting and understanding of programs has directly …
January 17, 2020
Internal emails from Boeing Co. employees could strengthen the legal case for families claiming the company’s push to minimize the training needed for new 737 Max aircraft contributed to two crashes that killed 346 people. Employees bragged about fooling the …
January 17, 2020
Insurance broker Marsh announced the appointment of Jacqueline Quintal as a managing director in its U.S. Financial Institutions Practice. In this role, Quintal will bring together transactional and risk advisory brokerage, claims, and consulting resources for financial institution clients throughout …
January 17, 2020
Distinguished Programs, a national insurance program manager, has promoted Mamadou Bah to regional sales executive and Renée A. McFadden to vice president and regional sales executive in New Jersey and eastern Long Island, including Queens and Brooklyn. With more than …
January 17, 2020
RogersGray has promoted Greg Deems to partner within the Massachusetts-headquartered, independent insurance agency. Deems joined RogersGray in 2011 and became a top performer in his sales role, devoting himself to the furthering of his insurance knowledge and was instrumental in …
January 17, 2020
The private U.S. property/casualty insurance industry saw its net underwriting gains increase to $5.4 billion in the first nine months of 2019 from $4.7 billion a year earlier, bolstered by growth in premiums and a drop in catastrophe losses. The …
January 17, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to shield state-run universities from having to appear before a federal administrative body to defend the validity of patents they own. The justices turned down an appeal by the University of Minnesota that argued it …