A bill that would help PG&E Corp. absorb liabilities from this year’s fatal wildfires in California is being drafted at the request of a state assemblyman who helped shepherd earlier legislation on the issue. Kellie Smith, an adviser to assemblyman …
A New Braunfels, Texas, woman must perform community service and pay more than $7,000 in restitution after being sentenced on workers’ compensation fraud charges. Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that Carolina Villanueva was sentenced in a Travis County district court …
Cincinnati, Ohio-based American Financial Group Inc. (AFG) has hired Anthony W. Dunn as vice president, overseeing the internal audit function for the company and its subsidiaries. Dunn has 20 years of experience in the insurance and financial services industry. Prior …
Reliance Partners, which specializes in commercial insurance, has added Brandon Richards as chief sales officer and opened a new office in Austin, Texas. Richards is a veteran insurance professional with more than 17 years in the commercial transportation insurance space. …
The London market’s electronic placing platform, PPL Ltd., exceeded targets during the third quarter as more and more syndicates and companies accepted risks via the platform. Beazley Syndicate 3623 topped the league table of those Lloyd’s syndicates that have embraced …
RT Specialty/New Day, a Hamilton, N.J.-based division of R-T Specialty LLC, has named Joe Reynolds as an assistant vice president in the National Environmental and Construction Professional Liability Practice (formerly New Day Underwriting Managers). In this role, he is responsible …
Frenkel & Company – an EPIC Company has hired risk management and insurance professional Tandis Nili to join its operations in New York as senior vice president and leader of the Global Services Division. Nili is based in Frenkel’s New …
The first two recreational marijuana stores in Massachusetts opened at the same exact time this week. A spokeswoman for Cultivate in Leicester said Saturday the store planned to move up its regular 10 a.m. start time to 8 a.m. on …
Ryan Insurance & Financial, a DeLand, Fla.-based independent insurance firm, has merged with S.S. Nesbitt Insurance, located in Clermont, Fla. The merger was finalized on October 1, 2018. Headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., with locations throughout the southeast, S.S. Nesbitt provides …
Ascot has named environmental insurance veteran John O’Brien as executive vice president and head of Environmental. O’Brien will be responsible for launching an environmental liabilities and related specialty product business unit accessing both the admitted and excess and surplus capabilities …
