August 9, 2018
Lafayette, Calif- based Stone Creek has named Joe Bornstein a commercial producer in its Spokane, Wash. office. Bornstein’s emphasis will be on small business on the West Coast. Bornstein comes to Stone Creek by from Liberty Mutual. He worked as …
August 9, 2018
Leavitt Group is has acquired majority ownership in ComTech Specialty in St. George, Utah. The combined agency will rebrand as ComTech – Leavitt Group. Leavitt Group is a network of insurance brokers. ComTech Specialty Group was founded by Joe Weipert, …
August 9, 2018
Authorities say a large fire at a Tennessee apartment complex has displaced dozens of residents. No one was injured. News outlets report the fire occurred Sunday morning at the Timberlake Village Apartments in the Antioch neighborhood of Nashville. Part of …
August 9, 2018
The Florida United Businesses Association (FUBA) is now offering workers’ compensation coverage to small businesses across the state through Lancer Indemnity Co. of New York. The partnership marks FUBA’s switch from the previous self-insurance model to a fully-insured and non-assessable …
August 9, 2018
A Kentucky panel established to review medical malpractice claims before lawsuits can be filed is severely backlogged. The Courier Journal obtained records through the Kentucky Open Records act that show only 11 percent of 531 claims had been assigned in …
August 9, 2018
After four years of building Brightway Insurance into a national brand as the company’s marketing manager, Nassau County resident, Lauren Mathewson, has teamed up with her family to open their own Brightway Agency, Brightway, The Coastal Agency in Yulee, Fla. …
August 8, 2018
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has named California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones chair of its new Cannabis Insurance Working Group. Jones proposed that the NAIC establish this working group the NAIC’s Summer National Meeting. The reason for creating the …
August 8, 2018
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has extended the disaster declaration for 60 counties impacted by Hurricane Harvey last year. Abbott first issued a disaster declaration on Aug. 23, 2017, for Aransas, Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette, Fort Bend, …
August 8, 2018
Outside consultants fault New Orleans officials’ long-term neglect of the city’s failing drainage system for widespread flooding last summer. Through a public records request, The New Orleans Advocate obtained the ABS Group report, a year and a day after a …
August 8, 2018
Hurricane Harvey will be remembered as an epic flooding disaster – and rightly so. But there is more to the story of this brutal hurricane which struck in late August 2017, according to the Insurance Institute for Business & Home …